- Totally unsafe and shouldn't be used for anything important
- This is a toy project i made to get a better understanding of the internals of a webserver such as NGINX and ASGI (used with Uvicorn)
- The HTTP webserver will be a constantly running C++ program which does the following
- Uses kernel to set up a socket that acts as a queue for incoming network connections
- Kernel listens to incoming network connections and places them on the queue (unless it is full)
- Processes network calls from the queue synchronously, one at a time
- Reads the HTTP message sent by the client ans sends a response acknowledging that the message was received
- When running the server, someone (e.g. my girlfriend) should be able to send me messages from their terminal (using CURL). They should receive a response saying the message was received
- Solution should have some basic automated tests
- Solution should have a MakeFile that enables project to be compiled and run locally
Compile and run (using Make)
make && ./http_webserver