Webserv

A simple HTTP server written in C++98 using epoll (Linux-only)

Features

Supported HTTP versions

• HTTP/1.0 - decent support
• HTTP/1.1 - limited support

HTTP methods:

• GET
• POST
• DELETE

Server capabilities:

• Non-blocking I/O with level-triggered epoll
• Chunked transfer encoding
• Persistent connections (Connection: keep-alive)
• CGI support

Build instructions

Because this project relies on Linux-specific epoll it is not compatible with other operating systems.

make

Executable can be found under /build/config_name/bin/webserv.

Usage

Example configurations files can be found under the config/ directory. Format is inspired by NGINX.

./webserv path/to/config

Benchmarks

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Development dependencies

• clang-format - code formatting
• clang-tidy - code analysis
• compiledb - generates compilation database for clang tooling
• utest.h - lightweight unit test framework inspired by googletest (C++98 compatible)