Custom Rust HTTP Server

This is the repository for a custom HTTP server written in Rust. It is developed with CodeCrafters, but is still my original code.

Running

Just run this command and a webserver will start on port 4221.

./your_server.sh

Capabilities

You can go to the index page which returns nothing. You can also go to /echo/type_whatever_here and it will return whatever you typed. The /user-agent page will return your User-Agent header. If you pass a --directory <path> argument, the /files/<file_name> path will return any file specified in that directory. If you send a POST request to a /files/<file_name> path with a body, a new file will be created there. Any other page will return a 404 error code.

The server has a very basic multithreading capability, where it will start a new thread for every request. If the HTTP client accepts a gzip encoding, the server will encode the content with gzip.