A basic HTTP server written using C and the Berkeley Sockets API.
The goal was to implement HTTP version 1.0 and so persistent connections are not supported.
This was made for a university project and is (of course) not a full implementaion.
Simply run the command make from the root directory of this project.
This will compile an executable into bin/ and clean up any object files.
Usage:
./bin/server <protocol number> <port number> <path to web root>
Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.
To request content from the server you can use the client.py script.
For example, from the command-line run
./bin/server 4 8000 www
then use the client.py script like so
% python3 client.py
Enter a path: /index.html
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 262
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a test page.</h1>
<img src="/assets/image.jpg" alt="web" />
<p><a href="/subdir/other.html">Link</a></p>
</body>
</html>
%
You can look inside the www/ directory to see what files the server can serve.
This codebase is MIT licensed.