This is a multi-threaded HTTP/1.1 server written in Rust.

I have written two accompagnying blog posts to this project:

• An introduction to networking theory to understand what HTTP and servers are about
• Architecture and implementation details of this particular server.

This server supporst the following path operations:

• /user-agent: returns the client's User-Agent header.
• /echo/<string>: echos the provided string back.
• /sleep: waits for 10s and returns 'Good sleep!' (used to test concurrency).
• <path> or /files/<path>: support GET and POST requests to read or write files in the server's data directory.
• /files/<path>: support both downloading (GET) and uploading (POST) files within the server's data directory.
• /<path>: general path handler to support hosting a website.
  • If the path is empty (the root /), it looks for index.html.
  • If index.html is missing, it automatically generates a directory listing (index) of the data folder.

Note: security checks are performed to prevent path traversal attacks.

1. Compile the Rust program into an executable:

cargo build --release

2. Run the executable:

./target/release/flyweight-http-server

The compile_and_run.sh script automates the 2 steps above.

Simply run:

./compile_and_run.sh`

to get the http-server going!