https://github.com/shenfeng/tiny-web-server

a tiny web server in C, for daily use.
https://github.com/shenfeng/tiny-web-server

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a tiny web server in C, for daily use.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shenfeng/tiny-web-server
• Owner: shenfeng
• Created: 2011-11-24T15:41:29.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-27T16:36:52.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-01T02:01:50.433Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 117 KB
• Stars: 372
• Watchers: 33
• Forks: 125
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
A tiny web server in C

======================

I am reading

[Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective](http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/).

It teachers me how to write a tiny web server in C.

I have written another

[tiny web server](https://github.com/shenfeng/nio-httpserver) in JAVA.

And another one [http-kit](https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit), http-kit is full featured, with websocket and async support

And few others on my github page.

Features

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1. Basic MIME mapping

2. Very basic directory listing

3. Low resource usage

4. [sendfile(2)](http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/sendfile.2.html)

5. Support Accept-Ranges: bytes (for in browser MP4 playing)

6. Concurrency by pre-fork

Non-features

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1. No security check

Usage

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`tiny `, opens a server in the current directory, port

default to 9999, just like `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`

I use it as a lightweight File Browser.

TODO

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1. Write a epoll version

License

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The code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.