gw-http

HTTP web and networking server by the GWU SHC group!

Use

$ make
$ ./gw-http 8080
...point your browser to localhost:8080/shc.html...
$ make clean

Project ideas

Expand this code to

• [EASY] add an awesome 404 page with tons of awesome tech
• [EASY] add other error pages
• [MEDIUM] trivial message board
• add a HTTP PUT handler (10 lines of code)
• add a linked-list or otherwise data-structure to track the messages that have been put
• add a webpage that displays these messages, with a prompt at the bottom that makes the next PUT request
• add auto-refresh logic to the webpage
• now you have a trivial message board!
• [HARD] Add fastcgi support
• Also integrate with memcache to cache output because performance!
• [MEDIUM] add messaging logic so that this is also a message server with a REST API for all of its functionality
• [EASY] perform routing so that certain paths (e.g. /gwmsg/) go to specific plugins
• [MEDIUM] add a plugin facility so that different server tasks can be plugged in (e.g. messaging)
• [EASY] include more HTTP options and extensions
• [MEDIUM] include Rust extensions
• [HARD] add isolation of plugins using 1. processes, then 2. chroot or container equivalents
• [HARD] integrate with slack as a plugin
• [MEDIUM] add Travis CI integration on github
• [TRIVIAL] RULE THE WORLD

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