https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd

Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.
https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd

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Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd
• Owner: nemasu
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2014-01-28T06:07:31.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-13T11:37:35.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-02-15T14:30:44.063Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Assembly
• Size: 50.8 KB
• Stars: 2,975
• Watchers: 88
• Forks: 205
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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asmttpd

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Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.

Features:

* Multi-threaded.

* No libraries required ( only 64-bit Linux ).

* Very small binary.

* Quite fast.

What works:

* Serving files from specified document root.

* HEAD requests.

* 200, 206, 404, 400, 413, 416

* Content-types: xml, html, xhtml, gif, png, jpeg, css, js, svg, and octet-stream.

  

Planned Features:

* Directory listing.

Current Limitations / Known Issues

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* Sendfile can hang if GET is cancelled.

Installation

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Run `make` or `make release` for non-debug version.

You will need `yasm` installed.

Usage

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`./asmttpd /path/to/web_root port_number`

Example: `./asmttpd ./web_root 8080`

Changes

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2023-04-13 : asmttpd - 0.4.6

* Initial directory listing support.

2021-01-15 : asmttpd - 0.4.5

* string_contains bugfix.

2019-04-22 : asmttpd - 0.4.4

* Added SVG support.

2019-01-24 : asmttpd - 0.4.3

* Added port number as parameter.

2017-10-18 : asmttpd - 0.4.2

* Set REUSEADDR.

2017-10-17 : asmttpd - 0.4.1

* Stack address bug fix.

2016-10-31 : asmttpd - 0.4

* HEAD support.

2014-07-14 : asmttpd - 0.3

* Added default document support.

2014-02-10 : asmttpd - 0.2

* Added 400, 413, 416 responses.

* Fixed header processing bug.

2014-02-07 : asmttpd - 0.1.1

* Fixed 206 max length bug.

* Commented out simple request logging, uncomment in main.asm to enable.

2014-02-06 : asmttpd - 0.1

* Fixed SIGPIPE when transfer is cancelled.

* Added a more useful error on bind failure.

* Fixed 206 size calculation.

* Combined seek & get file size system calls.

2014-02-05 : asmttpd - 0.09

* Issue #8 fix. Crashes on long request paths.

2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.08

* Added TCP corking.

2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.07

* Removed thread pool after benchmarking, changed to an accept-per-thread model.

2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.06

* Worker thread stack corruption bug fix.

2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.05

* Changed 200 and 206 implementation to use sendfile system call.

* Got rid of read/write buffer, changed request read buffer to standard 8KB.

2014-02-03 : asmttpd - 0.04

* 200 now streams full amount

2014-02-01 : asmttpd - 0.03

* Files are split if too large to fit into buffer. 

* Added 206 responses with Content-Range handling

2014-01-30 : asmttpd - 0.02

* Added xml, xhtml, gif, png, jpeg, css, and javascript content types.

* Changed thread memory size to something reasonable. You can tweak it according to available memory. See comments in main.asm

* Added simple request logging.

* Added removal of '../' in URL.