Rust Multithreaded Web Server

This is a little practice example of a multithreaded web server implemented using the Rust Programming Language.

Usage

To use this web server and try it, it is required Cargo to be installed.

First, clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/alexriosj/rust_mt_web_server
cd rust_mt_web_server

With cargo already installed, simply run:

cargo run

The server will just accept one request due to the educative focus. If you want to test more request remove the .take(2) from the main function in src/bin/main.rs as the following code:

fn main() {
    // --snip--

    for stream in listener.incoming() {
        // --snip--
    }

    // --snip--
}

You can interact with three request:

• GET /
• GET /sleep
• Other (this returns back a 404 NOT FOUND error). e.g.: 127.0.0.1/test

The /sleep route will sleep the current thread 5 seconds, so then thanks to the multithread architecture other requests to / will be resolved before /sleep finishes.

Used Techniques

• Fixed to 4 threads to prevent creation of infinite threads.
• Management of a channel to be able to send and receive messages between threads.
• Correct clean up when shutting down the server if an error ocurrs.

Notes

• This is an example and it does not implement all robustness required for a production web server.