Asynchronous HTTP server library utilizing libuv and llhttp in C
Inspired by httpserver.h, this is a very simple C library.
By being based on libuv, you can utilize libuv's various asynchronous supports such as thread pool, timer, and so on. I try not to hide libuv's API as much as possible, and try to keep it as simple as possible and leave nothing under the hood.
By utilizing llhttp, high performance HTTP parsing library, thus without reinventing the wheel, this library just focuses on providing a simple and thin API.
- libuv (v1.40.0)
- llhttp (v3.0.0)
For unit testing
- cgreen (1.3.0)
uvllhttpd just collects HTTP request data passed by llhttp, then calls your request handler with them.
The passed HttpRequest is on the calling function's stack memory, so you don't have to release (free) them as long as you handle requests in the callback function.
This is because I wanted to make it efficient and memory leak safe.
But if you need to pass request handling to a worker process, you need to malloc and copy request data so that the worker can access, like in example.c.