arivima/42_webserv

simple event-driven HTTP server made from scratch

- Disclaimer!
+ On this github only the project is final
! Project research, documentation and other supporting documents are work in progress 
! -> readme.md and dir _readme_files 

42_webserv

Simple HTTP server made from scratch description of project

Features of this Webserv

• Sockets programming : Basic server-client communication (using the <sys/socket.h> lib)
• Sockets programming : IO multiplexing with epoll suite, sockets are non blocking
• Web server architecture : based on NGINX architecture (worker process) -> Server data structure, configuration data structure
• Web server architecture : one worker (one process) is handling all connections using epoll,
• Configuration files : inspired by Nginx configuration file, see details for directives below
• Configuration directives : see "./_webserv/configuration_files/README.md"
• HTTP protocol : 1.1
• HTTP methods : GET, POST, DELETE
• HTTP Redirections
• HTTP error codes : see "./webserv_dictionnary.md"
• File upload :
• File download :
• data type handled : plain/text, binary
• Chunked encoding
• dynamic content handled with CGI, CGI scripts in python and perl
• Timers set to 60 seconds default
• HTML scripts, CSS
• uses stream objects instead of file descriptors for most read/write operation except for sockets
• Error management, leaks, siege

host, listen, server_name, location, method, root, index, autoindex, body_size, error_page, return, exec_cgi, extension_cgi)

Content of this github

_webserv

This folder contains the final and complete version of our Webser, pushed and validated 18/07/23.

./webserv_*

We are aiming to finalize the following documents in the coming weeks, currently they are still work in progress :

• ./webserv_dictionnary.md
• ./webserv_research.pdf
• ./webserv_flowchart.pdf
• ./webserv_correction_prep.md
• ./_webserv/configuration_files/README.md

WIP Research is available at : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i5g1XgHDpUf_c7DF9Sp-EdEj2Bdzipvbjh13hLPty0w/edit?usp=sharing disclaimer : this was our research document during the project and hasn´t been finalized, it's a bit of a mess but there are resourceful information

How to use this Webserv

..TBD

Default Functioning of Our Webserver

The default configuration file is located at configuration_files/default.conf.
The root is always at var/www.
This folder contains all the static files that our webserver can return to the client (html, css, images and even javascript files!).
The index page is located at /html/landing_page.html.

...TBC