Simple Web-Server and WebSocket-Server

A very simple, fast, multithreaded web and websocket server. Easy to use to create C ++ REST and WEB applications.

Features

• Multithreaded request handling
• Platform independent
• HTTPS clients support
• HTTP persistent connection (for HTTP/1.1)
• Client supports chunked transfer encoding
• Synchronous handling of multiple websocket clients
• Basic client authorisation

Usage

See test.hpp and api.hpp for example usage.

Dependencies

• For json data handling: JSONCONS - https://github.com/danielaparker/jsoncons
• For HTTPS: OpenSSL libraries

Compile and run

Compile with a C++11 compliant compiler:

cd <your project directory> //At the same level as the Makefile.
make server
./web-server

Checks and testing

For web-server testing open with your favorite browser swagger page http://localhost:37378/swagger/ui For websocket-server testing open with your favorite browser test page http://localhost:37378/ws_test.html

If your test domain is different from localhost, change it in line 35 in the ws_test.html file. If you want to change port number, do it in the web-server.ini file. For changing websocket port also change one in line 35 in the ws_test.html file.

For basic authorisation set SERVER-AUTHT to 1 in web-server.ini file. See authorisation and permit data in users.json file.

To test the web client, the https://httpbin.org/ REST service is used.