rust-httpfs

A basic file server written in Rust, with custom HTTP protocol code

Why? It's a fun and interesting thing to build.

Should you use it? Not for anything important, the HTTP handling should be fairly solid, but it's nowhere near as tested as other solutions like reqwest.

Features

• GET / -> Return index (html if Accept: text/html, plaintext otherwise)

• GET /:path -> Return file or directory listing at path or 404

• POST /:path -> Create/overwrite file at path

• Content-Type & Content-Disposition:

  • Automatically computed from file extention, should display image/video/etc just fine in-browser

• Concurrent clients just works™️

  • Try it out with Apache Benchmark ab -c 50 -n 2000 localhost:8080

• CLI:

httpfs is a simple file server.
usage: httpfs [-v] [-p PORT] [-d PATH-TO-DIR]
  -v Prints debugging messages.
  -p Specifies the port number that the server will listen and serve at. Default is 8080.
  -d Specifies the directory that the server will use to read/write requested files. Default is the current directory when launching the application.