This is a simple HTTP server designed to impliment the required features of the project, as described in REQUIREMENTS.pdf. This server will respond to basic HTTP/1.0 requests for a specific set of filenames. It performs no processing of headers and is otherwise very limited in functionality. However, I still found this project rewarding, and it served as an interesting look into the basics of the backbone behind the modern internet today.
A few notes about the project: Some of the requirements were a bit ambiguous, for example that the server should only serve files by the format of fileX.html and imageX.jpg, but also suggested that some testing would be performed in a web browser, which will automatically append a '/' to the beginning of the file requested. Thus, my server will respond to requests of the formats:
- fileX.html
- /fileX.html
- imageX.jpg
- /imageX.jpg
Second, there was no note as to how the requested HTTP protocol version should be handled, so this parameter is ignored by my server. This means that a request that is technically malformed will still return the requested file, but upon testing, many web servers that host common pages on the internet also respond despite a malformed HTTP version, so I intentionally left this as such.
Finally, it is worth nothing that I never implemented the SIGINT catch as the implementations are different per platform, and I ended up programming all the server functionality in before this anyway.
This project was written for CSCI471: Computer Networks at Colorado School of Mines. A small portion of this project was provided as starter code to demonstrate the usage of the socket.h pipeline.
Consequently, I recommend against reusing any of this code if, by chance, you are working on the same project. Furthermore, I request that this code be used only for non-profit and/or educational purposes. Thank you :)
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