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httpserver

A multithreaded HTTP/1.1 file server written in C.

Usage

./httpserver <port> serve files in the current directory on specified port.

Supported Features

  • persistent (ie: Keep-Alive) TCP connections
  • GET and HEAD requests
  • Last-Modified and If-Modified-Since headers

Future Features???

  • timeouts
  • gzip compression
  • redirects
  • POST requests (I've held off because response generation details are application specific)
  • range requests (the tricky part here will be dealing with multipart ranges)

Requirements

  • gcc, make
  • pthreads

I have tested this on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the Linux Subsystem for Windows. Warning: there are a few parts of the codebase that make use of nonstandard extensions in glibc ex: timegm(3).