mekb-turtle/http-server

Simple http server written in C

http-server

[Work in progress]

Simple HTTP server that serves files from a directory. It is written in C using the libmicrohttpd library.

Compiling:

1. Install dependencies
   • libmicrohttpd (arch: libmicrohttpd, debian: libmicrohttpd-dev)
   • cJSON (arch: cjson, debian: libcjson-dev)
   • libmagic (arch: file, debian: libmagic-dev)

   • sudo pacman -S libmicrohttpd cjson file
     

   • sudo apt install libmicrohttpd-dev libcjson-dev libmagic-dev
     

2. Run meson setup build
3. Run meson compile -C build
4. Binary will be created at build/http-server

The server supports directory listing and file preview.

Preview:

Directory Listing

Text Preview

Working on:

• Read files from disk to serve
  • File caching
    • Cache invalidation
    • MIME type detection
    • Large file support (don't cache?)
• Directory listing
• File preview
  • Text
    • Convert non-UTF8 text to UTF8
    • Line numbers
    • Syntax highlighting
  • Images
  • Audio
  • Video

Planned features:

• Code cleanup
• Documentation
• Finer control over the server
  • Cache control
  • Custom index page
  • Custom error pages
  • Set specific MIME types which are served as raw data (without file preview)
• Signal to drop cache