🖥️ Simple C HTTP Server

A lightweight HTTP server built using raw Winsock2 on Windows. It serves static files from a public/ folder and supports basic MIME types like HTML, CSS, JS, images, and plain text.

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🚀 Features

• ✅ Serve static files from public/ directory

• ✅ Handles GET requests

• ✅ Returns correct MIME types

• ✅ Handles 404 (Not Found) gracefully

• ✅ Logs served files and requests

• ❌ No threading (single-client at a time)

• ❌ Only supports HTTP GET method

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🛠️ Requirements

• Windows OS

• Visual Studio / GCC (MinGW) / Clang

• C Compiler with Winsock2 support

This project doesn't support linux yet as i have build this in windows but in later update i will update this

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🧱 Folder Structure

project-root/
├── server.c           # Your main C file (this program)
├── public/            # Place your static files here
│   ├── index.html     # Default file served at /
│   ├── style.css
│   └── script.js

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⚙️ How to Build and run

Use any Windows C compiler. Example with gcc (MinGW):

gcc server.c -o server.exe -lws2_32

then run this.

./server.exe

Open a browser and visit: 📡 http://localhost:8080

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📝 How It Works

• Uses Winsock to create a TCP server on port 8080

• Accepts connections and reads HTTP requests

• Supports only GET method

• Serves files from public/ (default to index.html for /)

• Sends appropriate Content-Type header based on file extension

• Gracefully handles missing files with a 404 response

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🌐 Supported MIME Types

Extension	MIME Type
.html	text/html
.css	text/css
.js	application/javascript
.png	image/png
.jpg	image/jpeg
.jpeg	image/jpeg
.txt	text/plain
Other	application/octet-stream

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⚠️ Limitations

Its a basic one so it have some limitation which are as following

• No HTTPS

• No request routing

• No security handling (e.g., path traversal)

• Only one client served at a time (no concurrency/threading)

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🧠 Author Notes

This project is built purely for learning purposes — to understand how sockets, HTTP, and static file serving work at the lowest level in C on Windows.

Happy building! 🚀