abilian / httpd-plus

HTTP server written in Cython+

Httpd-plus, an HTTP server written in Cython+

Httpd-plus

Httpd-plus is a web server (HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1), dedicated to serve static files, developped using the Cython+ programming language. The web server uses the actor model to parallelize responses to requests.

The static file server is inspired by the features of the middleware, a common component of a python configuration using Flask or Django. Whitenoise responds to static file requests, it speeds up these transactions by using a cache of HTTP headers and file statistics (size, last modification date).

CythonPlus: https://www.cython.plus and https://pypi.org/project/cython-plus

Whitenoise: https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise

Installation

• Prerequisites:

  • Linux with C++ development environment (tested on Ubuntu 2020),
  • Python 3.8+,
  • Cython+ installed (see https://pypi.org/project/cython-plus/)

• {fmt} library:

  Httpd-plus uses the libfmt library. For convenience a copy of fmtlib version 8.1 is included in this package and compiled locally as static library during the build process. See https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt

• Installation:

  ./make_httpd_plus.sh

  This script:

  • builds libfmt.a,
  • builds httpd-plus,
  • copies the server in a ./bin local folder.

Usage

Two scripts start_httpd_plus.sh and stop_httpd_plus.sh show how to run the server with a sample configuration (root of the web site at ~/tmp/site_root and static folder ~/tmp/site_root/static).

Sources

https://github.com/abilian/httpd-plus

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.