albertsebastain / http_sever

Toy HTTP server

an HTTP server that supports basic headers and some basic methods.

Purpose

According to the toy HTTP server, the user can learn how to build a web server and get some tricks from it. although some open-source HTTP server has good performance it is not friendly for the learner because of the complex structure. The toy HTTP server aims to achieve an HTTP server that can satisfy basic functions with simple structure and code. The toy HTTP server uses some interfaces and classes from c++11, the users can also befit some from it.

Support Features

Parse and add basic headers.
Thread pool
Using config file to change the parameters
Non-blocking IO
Reactor
Finite state machine
TImer with min-heap

Usage

mkdir build
cd ./build
cmake
make ..
./http_server

The parameters are saved in ./config.yaml

Drawbacks

The server does not parse the request body.
The server always uses new and delete to apply and release memory.