Tiny Web Server

Description

• Tiny is a simple, multi-threaded HTTP/1.0 Web server that uses GET method to serve static and dynamic content.
• It combines many important ideas like process control, Unix I/O, socket interface and HTTP protocol.
• While it lacks many of real web servers features, it can serve serve both static and dynamic content to a real Web browser.

How does Tiny works?

• The main routine opens a listen port to recieve the connection requests.
• The server function does its job through:
  1. parse the HTTP request.
  2. parse the uri.
  3. serve the content.

Requirements

• Linux or any UNIX-like OS.
• git.
• gcc.
• make.

How to test Tiny?

• Use the following commands to download and compile the source code:

    git clone https://github.com/IslamWalid/tiny_web_server
    cd tiny_web_server
    make

• Run Tiny:

./tiny <port>

• Send an HTTP request to it using:

  telnet:

  telnet localhost <port>
  

  Web browser:

  http://localhost:<port>
  

Example using telnet:

Example using browser:

Another example using browser: