equal-l2 / http-server-from-scratch

HTTP Server from scratch

Toy project to learn how to build server and learn about async ecosystem of Rust

Plans

1. Build a single-threaded synchronous HTTP/1.1 server
   • Parse a request header
   • Parse path and read content (with caring about path traversal)
   • Parse body
   • Build response and send it (should be easy)
   • Consider keep-aliveing? (maybe)
2. Build a single-threaded async runtime and turn the HTTP server into async
   • Read the async book
   • Totally no idea after that, currently
3. Make the runtime multi-threaded
   • Steal idea from tokio/async-std/actix?

Problem

• Can't handle keep-alive yet (Modern browsers assume all server supports it :( )