edoriggio / cn-web-server

Project for the Computer Networking course @ USI University

Roma Capoccia Web Server

Abstract

This is a web server that works with a subsection of the HTTP methods. It is implemented using python 3 and only uses python's socket library to handle requests and send back resoponses. The server is also multithreaded and accepts both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 requests (thus being able to keep sockets alive).

Execution Steps

In oder to run the server, just type in the terminal the following line

python3 ./server.py {PORT_N}

Where PORT_N is the port number (default is 80). In order to view one of the websites in the web browser, change the first index of hosts. 0 = Edoardo Riggio, 1 = Matteo Bernaschina, 2 = Matteo Alberici (located in server.py):

190   # CHANGE THIS LINE IN ORDER TO SEE A STUDENT'S WEBSITE IN THE BROWSER
191   HOST = hosts[0][0]
...
248   # CHANGE THIS LINE IN ORDER TO SEE A STUDENT'S WEBSITE IN THE BROWSER
249   HOST = hosts[0][0]
...
298   # CHANGE THIS LINE IN ORDER TO SEE A STUDENT'S WEBSITE IN THE BROWSER
299   HOST = hosts[0][0]
...
342   # CHANGE THIS LINE IN ORDER TO SEE A STUDENT'S WEBSITE IN THE BROWSER
343   HOST = hosts[0][0]

Contributions

Student	Tasks
Edoardo Riggio	Task A, Task B, Task C, Task D, Task E, Task F, Task G, Task H, Optional Task A
Matteo Alberici	Task A, Task B, Task C, Task D, Task E, Task F, Task G, Task H, Optional Task B
Matteo Bernaschina	Task A, Task B, Task C, Task D, Task E, Task F, Task G, Task H

Notes

• The server does not work well with requests that exceed the size of 1024 kB.
• Socket hangs when an error code is sent in the browser, closes connection properly when error code is sent form Postman