This project aims to create a tiny but functional application server by leveraging multithread parallelism and epoll scheduling of linux OS.
All the source code is written in C. Some of the datastructures, such as, red black tree is used as the container of the connection nodes (container for holding the connection nodes can also be skiplist), http keep alive feature is carefully tangled in the rolling of connection nodes. Please dive into the source code for more details :)
Writing a webserver is quite a good practice to know how the datastructures can work with each other. It also involves quite a lot of crypto techniques if authrization should be applied to the web application. I use JWT auth theme with cookies in Maestro. Other auth themes are not considered for now.
- Multithread pool
- Epoll (so, linux specific)
- Non-blocking
- HTTP/1.1 GET method (static file)
- HTTP/1.1 HEAD method (static file)
- HTTP/1.1 POST method
- HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer
- HTTP/1.1 keep-alive (long connection, disconnected after timeouts)
- built-in cache to provide better GET performance
- deflate compression
- download resumption
- jwt auth theme
The source code could be adapted to work as a framework for developing high perfomance application servers.
If you are interested in the project, drop me an email at Edward_lei72@hotmail.com