Tornado
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Tornado, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Tornado's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Tornado | Free | Apache License 2.0 · Install with pip |
The facts
Each one read from Tornado's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Async integration
- Tornado shares the standard-library asyncio event loop by default, and asyncio-designed libraries can generally be mixed with it.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Authentication integrations
- The tornado.auth module supports authentication and authorization protocols for services including Google/Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Components
- Tornado includes a web framework, client- and server-side HTTP implementations, and an asynchronous networking library.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Cookie security detail
- Signed cookies provide integrity but not confidentiality, so their contents remain visible to users.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Tornado supplies its own HTTPServer and is started by running an application entry point that starts the server.checked 7 Oct 2026
- License
- Tornado is available under the Apache License, Version 2.0.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Long connections
- Its non-blocking network I/O can scale to tens of thousands of open connections, supporting use cases such as long polling and WebSockets.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security features
- Tornado supports signed cookies and includes built-in cross-site request forgery protection that can be enabled with the xsrf_cookies setting.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project directs users to its developer mailing list for discussion and its GitHub issue tracker for bug reports.checked 7 Oct 2026
- What it is
- Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library.checked 7 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Linux and macOS
- Tornado is designed for Unix-like platforms and performs best on systems with epoll, kqueue, or /dev/poll support.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Windows limitation
- Tornado runs on Windows, but Windows is not officially supported or recommended for production, and some features such as multi-process mode are missing.checked 7 Oct 2026
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