localhost

A single threaded HTTP server written in Rust as a part of the grit:lab curriculum.

Project description

Features

• Custom handlers
• Standard handlers for GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE, POST, PUT, DELETE & PATCH
• Support for chunked requests with the Transfer-Encoding header.
• Support for JavaScript, Python, PHP and Ruby CGI.
• Sessions
• Server logs
• Dynamic default error page

Quick start guide

1. Install Rust
2. run cargo run in the root of this directory

The demo configuration will give you these following routes:

• /api/update-cookie - Handler to update a cookie on the server
• /api/get-cookie - Handler to get a cookie from the server
• /api/cookie-demo - Dynamic session demo
• /cgi - Demo path for implemented CGI
• /files - Access anything you want in the /files directory. Highly recommend to remove this endpoint in production.
• /test.txt - Used for testing files on the server
• /test-dir - Used for testing directories on the server