webserv

A non-blocking web server written from scratch in C++98, implementing a subset of the specifications defined in RFC 7230 and related RFCs.

Here are some notable features:

• configurable request body size and timeout limits
• CGI 1.1 support
• file uploads with configurable upload directories
• directory listing
• per-route configuration
• custom error pages

Installation

Requirements

• A Unix-like system
• A C++ compiler with C++98 support like clang++ or g++
• make
• siege for stress test (optional)

Build

git clone git@github.com:JeeNeeUhs/webserv.git
cd webserv
make

Usage

./webserv -h 
Usage: webserv [OPTION]... [FILE]

Options:
  -d, --debug      enable debug output
  -h, --help       print this message

Arguments:
  FILE             optional config file path

If no configuration file is provided, program uses ./config/default.conf by default. See example.conf for example.

References

References used for this project:

• https://www.alimnaqvi.com/blog/webserv
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3875
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1945
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2616
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
• https://pypi.org/project/legacy-cgi/
• https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/cgi
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.2
• https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/d44205284fa41662da803b796d6056fc1e59b1f3/src/http/modules/ngx_http_static_module.c#L148
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2046
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6265