Building RESTful Python Web Services

Making HTTP requests to the Tornado non-blocking API

Now, we can run the async_api.py script that launches Tornados's development server to compose and send HTTP requests to our new version of the Web API that uses the non-blocking features of Tornado combined with asynchronous execution. Execute the following command:

python async_api.py

The following lines show the output after we execute the previous command. The Tornado HTTP development server is listening at port 8888:

Listening at port 8888

With the previous command, we will start the Tornado HTTP server and it will listen on every interface on port 8888. Thus, if we want to make HTTP requests to our API from other computers or devices connected to our LAN, we don't need any additional configurations. ...