/http_browser

Primary LanguagePython

HTTP Browser

By: Huseyn Gambarov

Client-side

On the client side, client.py is able to request files from the server by sending GET requests. The obtaine files are stored under the "/proj" directory.

This client implements both pipelining and multiple requests features of HTTP 1.1.

Additionally, there is a compare.sh script that is able to compare response that is stored under "/proj" directory to the expected response.

Execution

  1. Create python virtual environment:
    • python3 -m venv venv
    • source ./venv/bin/activate
  2. Install dependencies:
    • pip install -r requirements.txt

Run client:

  • python3 client.py IP
  • python3 client.py IP:PORT

Both variations will work. When port is not specified it is set to 80 by default.

Run checker:

  • ./compare.sh path_to_folder_with_expected_results

The checker script compares files in the expected folder to the files in proj folder using cmp utility.

Technical specifications:

  1. Uses n-ary tree to parse dependencies and create dependency tree.
  2. Assign request to each socket using Round Robin mechanism to handle "Multiple Requests feature" of HTTP 1.1
  3. During load balancing the nodes are selected using the postorder traversal of the tree.

Used dependencies

  • colorama==0.4.6
  • bitstring==4.1.4
  • colorama==0.4.6

System versions

  • Python 3.11.6
  • Linux 6.5.0-21-generic x86_64
  • "Ubuntu 23.10"