I have a for example a small web page with repeated ajax requests. Page is sending one request per second and server on Pico W needs different times for processing same request. In my case it varies between 40 ms and 250 ms.
I expected the time for processing the request to be approximately in the range of 40 to 80ms.
Connection to Pico is fast and when i added some debug prints to poll() function in server.py, then i found, that the bottleneck is function - self._receive_header_bytes(conn)
def poll(self):
try:
conn, client_address = self._sock.accept()
with conn:
conn.settimeout(self._timeout)
start_msecs = supervisor.ticks_ms()
# Receiving data until empty line
header_bytes = self._receive_header_bytes(conn)
print(f"time to receive header bytes: {supervisor.ticks_ms() - start_msecs} ms")
# Return if no data received
example of printed output (it's not the same sample as shown in image)
time to receive header bytes: 157 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 152 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 129 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 12 ms
time to receive header bytes: 95 ms
time to receive header bytes: 210 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 12 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 46 ms
time to receive header bytes: 1 ms
time to receive header bytes: 167 ms
time to receive header bytes: 188 ms
time to receive header bytes: 199 ms
time to receive header bytes: 208 ms
example code:
import os
import time
import ipaddress
import wifi
import socketpool
import microcontroller
from adafruit_httpserver.server import HTTPServer
from adafruit_httpserver.request import HTTPRequest
from adafruit_httpserver.response import HTTPResponse
from adafruit_httpserver.methods import HTTPMethod
from adafruit_httpserver.mime_type import MIMEType
from adafruit_httpserver.status import CommonHTTPStatus
# set static IP address
ipv4 = ipaddress.IPv4Address("192.168.88.99")
netmask = ipaddress.IPv4Address("255.255.255.0")
gateway = ipaddress.IPv4Address("192.168.88.1")
wifi.radio.set_ipv4_address(ipv4=ipv4, netmask=netmask, gateway=gateway)
# connect to your SSID
wifi.radio.connect(
os.getenv("CIRCUITPY_WIFI_SSID"), os.getenv("CIRCUITPY_WIFI_PASSWORD")
)
print("Connected to WiFi")
pool = socketpool.SocketPool(wifi.radio)
server = HTTPServer(pool)
@server.route("/")
def base(request: HTTPRequest): # pylint: disable=unused-argument
with HTTPResponse(request, content_type=MIMEType.TYPE_HTML) as response:
response.send("""
<html>
<header>
<script>
const ajax = function (opt, cb) {
const headers = opt.headers || {},
body = opt.body || "",
xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open(opt.method || (body ? "POST" : "GET"), opt.url || "/", true);
xhr.ontimeout = xhr.onabort = xhr.onerror = function (e) {
console.error("XHR error: ", e, "opt: ", opt);
};
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
cb(xhr.status, xhr.response || xhr.responseText);
}
};
headers["Content-Type"] = headers["Content-Type"] || "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
for (const f in headers) {
xhr.setRequestHeader(f, headers[f]);
}
xhr.send(body);
};
function ajaxRequest(request, interval) {
const ax = function () {
ajax(request, function (code, response) {
if (code == 200 && response) {
console.log("response", response);
}
if (interval) {
setTimeout(ax, interval);
}
});
};
ax();
}
data = {"id":"sw1","value":true}
intervalMs = 1000
ajaxRequest({ url: "/api", method: "POST", headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify(data) }, intervalMs);
</script>
</header>
<body>
sapmle page with ajax request every 1 second
</body>
</html>""")
@server.route("/api", HTTPMethod.POST)
def base(request: HTTPRequest):
print("api request", request.body)
with HTTPResponse(request, content_type=MIMEType.TYPE_JSON) as response:
response.send('{"status": "ok"}')
print("starting server..")
# startup the server
try:
server.start(str(wifi.radio.ipv4_address))
print("Listening on http://%s:80" % wifi.radio.ipv4_address)
# if the server fails to begin, restart the pico w
except OSError:
time.sleep(5)
print("restarting..")
microcontroller.reset()
while True:
try:
server.poll()
except Exception as e:
print(e)
continue
I have a for example a small web page with repeated ajax requests. Page is sending one request per second and server on Pico W needs different times for processing same request. In my case it varies between 40 ms and 250 ms.
I expected the time for processing the request to be approximately in the range of 40 to 80ms.
Connection to Pico is fast and when i added some debug prints to poll() function in server.py, then i found, that the bottleneck is function -
self._receive_header_bytes(conn)example of printed output (it's not the same sample as shown in image)
example code: