This is the repository for the computer networks class assignment! We implemented a HTPP1.0 client and a server in C++.
Our project uses CMake as a build automation tool. We require version 3.10 or higher.
To compile the project, create a build folder to split source code from compilation related files, then execute make.
In sum, do the following:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
Those commands will compile web-server and web-client and generate binary files into the build folder.
To generate only one of those binaries, just do make web-server or make web-client.
The web server serves pages and files through a TCP connection. Its invocation requires three arguments: the server name, its port and the folder in which it will search for files. See the example below to start the program.
# ./web-server [host] [port] [folder]
./web-server 127.0.0.1 8080 ../folder
The server looks for the request url path in the initialized directorty. For instance, the url 127.0.0.1:8080/myfile/picture.jpg corresponds to a file picture.jpg inside the folder myfile and 127.0.0.1:8080/folder returns the index.html file inside folder.
The web client fetches files and pages through a TCP connection. To invoke it, pass as arguments the URLs you want to fetch. There is an example below of how to start the client.
# ./web-client [URL] [URL]
./web-client www.google.com