CocoaHTTPServer is a small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications.
Sometimes developers need an embedded HTTP server in their app. Perhaps it's a server application with remote monitoring. Or perhaps it's a desktop application using HTTP for the communication backend. Or perhaps it's an iOS app providing over-the-air access to documents. Whatever your reason, CocoaHTTPServer can get the job done. It provides:
- Built in support for bonjour broadcasting
- IPv4 and IPv6 support
- Asynchronous networking using GCD and standard sockets
- Password protection support
- SSL/TLS encryption support
- Extremely FAST and memory efficient
- Extremely scalable (built entirely upon GCD)
- Heavily commented code
- Very easily extensible
SSL/TLS encryption is implemented via OpenSSL, which must be installed separately.
To install OpenSSL using Homebrew, run brew install openssl.
The (original CocoaHTTPServer project)[https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaHTTPServer] project hasn't been maintained in a while.
This fork of CocoaHTTPServer is maintained by the Appium team, for the sole purpose of using it as a dependency of Appium's WebDriverAgent.
