Simple Web server in Go

in order to solve Computer assignment of Computer Networks in SBU (Spring 1400) I implemented a web server in Go

more info about project could be found here

this web server can only handle one specific request: request for a file in file system

for example:

curl -v 127.0.0.1/index.html

how to use

this program is written in pure go, so for compilation you need to install go>=1.16

after that that would be enough to run:

# compile and run 
go build 
sudo ./http-server

# just run
go run main.go

important note

don't forgot to use sudo because opening port 80 needs root access, of you are a normal user you can setup server on another port with this command:

go build 
./http-server -port 8080
# or
go run main.go -port 8080

how to use

after running on port 80,

• just open browser and visit localhost
• add your files to static folder, for example add music.mp3 to static folder and view it in address localhost/music.mp3
• if you want to use curl or another friends, yo can see requests.sh file.

Implementation details

you can read about details of implementation in report.md