Webserv

Write your own HTTP server in C++. Resilience is key. Your server must remain operational at all times.

The goal is to understand the intricacies of the HTTP protocol. It's one of the most widely used protocols on the internet. Read the RFCs defining the HTTP protocol, and compare your program’s behaviour with NGINX’s.

Grade: 100/100

Resources

• Beej's guide to network programming
  • https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/#poll
• Detailed info on file descriptors (sockets)
  • https://copyconstruct.medium.com/nonblocking-i-o-99948ad7c957
• Detailed info on epoll
  • https://copyconstruct.medium.com/the-method-to-epolls-madness-d9d2d6378642
  • https://programmer.ink/think/epoll-for-linux-programming.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20170810154343/https://idndx.com/2014/09/01/the-implementation-of-epoll-1/
• Epoll example code
  • https://github.com/onestraw/epoll-example/blob/master/epoll.c
  • https://github.com/CGQAQ/how-to-epoll/blob/main/main.c
• Simple HTTP server written in C by IBM guy
  • https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3msld7qnNOhN1NXaFIwSFU2Mjg/view?resourcekey=0-ngY0neP78dxJKlFv0PJoDQ
• Book on HTTP
  • https://www.manning.com/books/illustrated-guide-to-http?new=true&experiment=B
• Better RFC
  • https://httpwg.org

Contributors

@ivork95

@ArthurBeznik