BZOT
This is apparently something similar to an HTTP server. A server which speaks HTTP. You send it HTTP requests, and it returns HTTP responses.
Seriously?
I was once very good at C and I miss those years. What should I do, then? But write some random C, obviously.
But what can I do? A network server, of course. And why HTTP? Well, because…
- It's pretty straightforward (you know how it's supposed to work and how to start testing its features)
- There are plenty of clients to test it, and it's easy to benchmark
- Can be quite complicated, addressing all those weird edge cases right?
- It's an incremental effort (start from HTTP, add HTTPS, then HTTP/2…)
Goals
None. Just write some C and have fun parsing headers and read cconfiguration files.
I will probably stop once I feel the need of automake/autoconf.
Also[segmentation fault]
Status
- Learn how to compile and debug C in macOs
- "Hello world!"
- Basic networking
- I have a server, and I can connect to it
- Fork or threads? Fork
- Blocking or not blocking? Blocking with fork
- Read the HTTP request
- Reply "Hello from Bzot" to the browser
- Parse the HTTP request