XDEv11 / sehttpd

A small and efficient web server with 1K lines of C code

seHTTPd

seHTTPd implements a small and efficient web server with 1K lines of C code. I/O multiplexing is achieved using epoll.

Features

• Single-threaded, non-blocking I/O based on event-driven model
• HTTP persistent connection (HTTP Keep-Alive)
• A timer for executing the handler after having waited the specified time

High-level Design

+----------------------------------------------+
|                                              |
|  +-----------+   wait   +-----------------+  |  copy   +---------+
|  |           +---------->                 +------------>         |
|  | IO Device |    1     | Kernel's buffer |  |   2     | Process |
|  |           <----------+                 <------------+         |
|  +-----------+          +-----------------+  |         +---------+
|                                              |
+----------------------------------------------+

Build from Source

At the moment, seHTTPd supports Linux based systems with epoll system call. Building seHTTPd is straightforward.

$ make

By default the server accepts connections on port 8081, if you want to assign other port for the server, modify file src/mainloop.c and build again.

License

seHTTPd is released under the MIT License. Use of this source code is governed by a MIT License that can be found in the LICENSE file.