nyancel / bobcat

HTTP Web server written in C

Bobcat

a webserver in C

this is very much a work in progress, the idea is to have a somewhat decent yet very simple web-server framework focused on static files, templating and forms to build traditional SSR MPA applications. as well as handling things like file-transfers.

Roadmap

1. Threading ✅
2. Request parsing 🟡
3. Handler mapping 🟡
4. Response generation ❌

-- maybe more to come?

wishlist

HOT RELOAD: I would love to include things like support for hot-reloading, but im not sure exactly how to do that from a library perspective, that might be more of an application level thing.

JSON: i might implement the c-json lib in order to have access to parsing json data from the request body for building API's, althouhg that is not the primary focus at the moment.

things i need help with

does it leak? does it leak a lot? its really bad isnt it? memmory management is not my strongest suit, and while i try to keep a track of stuff i realize that there are probably several places where bobcat isnt really "house-clean".

so if you're comfy with valgrind or have some other tools up your belt feel free to help sort out threading and memmor management where possible, its much apreciated ^~^

known issues

• crashes on unmapped URL
• all "foreign" HTTP-VERBS are treated as bc_NONE

todo:

• handler: threaded tasks
• handler: hot reloading
• handler: map functions to rules
• request parsing: methods
• request parsing: uri - path
• request parsing: uri - args
• request parsing: headers
• request parsing: body - json
• request parsing: body - form
• response construction: head - statuscode
• response construction: head - headers
• response construction: head - cookie
• response construction: body - html
• response construction: body - json