wesers - a simple HTTP/HTTPS server in Rust
Table of Contents
Installation
(You need to compile with nightly, now)
If you want to build from source, make sure you are using nightly toolchain !
Without HTTPS support
Install with
cargo install --git https://github.com/wdv4758h/wesers
or
cargo install --git https://github.com/wdv4758h/wesers --tag v0.4.2
If you want to download prebuilt binary, you can visit GitHub's release page
With HTTPS support
Install with
cargo install --git https://github.com/wdv4758h/wesers --features https
or
cargo install --git https://github.com/wdv4758h/wesers --tag v0.4.2 --features https
Usage
$ wesers --help
wesers 0.4.2
Chiu-Hsiang Hsu <wdv4758h@gmail.com>
a simple HTTP/HTTPS server in Rust
USAGE:
wesers [FLAGS] [OPTIONS]
FLAGS:
-h, --help Prints help information
--https use HTTPS instead of HTTP
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
--cert <cert> SSL certificate file (needed for HTTPS)
--index <index> auto detect index.html [default: true]
--ip <ip> binding IP [default: 127.0.0.1]
--key <key> SSL key file (needed for HTTPS)
--port <port> binding port [default: 8000]
--root <root> root directory [default: .]
--template <template> HTML template path
run :
$ RUST_LOG=info wesers
Simple HTTP Server running on http://127.0.0.1:8000/
INFO:logger: 127.0.0.1:54400 GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/ -> 200 OK (0.268528 ms)
run with custom address and HTML template :
$ wesers --ip 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 --template ./custom.mustache
Simple HTTP Server running on http://127.0.0.1:8080/
run in HTTPS :
$ wesers --https --cert mycert.pem --key mykey.pem
Simple HTTP Server running on https://127.0.0.1:8000/
Binary Size
x86_64 Linux (with HTTPS):
Filename | Version | Stripped ? | Size (Bytes) | Size (MB) |
wesers | v0.4.2 | No | 4568856 | 4.4M |
wesers | v0.4.2 | Yes | 3055784 | 3.0M |
x86_64 Linux (without HTTPS):
Filename | Version | Stripped ? | Size (Bytes) | Size (MB) |
wesers | v0.4.2 | No | 4475568 | 4.3M |
wesers | v0.4.2 | Yes | 2989928 | 2.9M |
x86_64 Linux (with musl, without HTTPS):
Filename | Version | Stripped ? | Size (Bytes) | Size (MB) |
wesers | v0.4.2 | No | 4553024 | 4.4M |
wesers | v0.4.2 | Yes | 2791552 | 2.7M |
Benchmarks
This is a simple load testing by Herd (Just a simple test, not indicate a lot)
# Running both herd and wesers on Intel Core i5-2400 with 4GB RAM
$ ./target/release/herd -t 4 -r 1000 http://127.0.0.1:8000
...
Spawning virtual user 1
...
Spawning virtual user 3
...
I made a total of 4000 requests, the mean response time was: 0.00042591915919911117 seconds.
Changelog
Not Implemented Yet (Plan)
- more files information (type, size, last modified time)
- more documentation
- QR code support
- optional userdir
- support limit request times
- RESTful API for files and directories
- can run as CGI server
- template live reload
- handle POST for upload files
- Android support
- more template engine support
- fix everything discover by linter (e.g. clippy)
- code refactoring to improve performance
- reduce binary size
- HTTP2 support
v0.4.3 (?)
- unicode url support
v0.4.2 (2016-12-10)
Features
- update all dependencies
v0.4.1 (2016-08-03)
Fix
- HTTPS build
v0.4.0 (2016-08-03)
Features
- log client IP
- update all dependencies
v0.3.1 (2016-07-09)
Fix
- make HTTPS optional (because of the dependency of OpenSSL)
v0.3.0 (2016-07-08)
Features
- custom HTML template support (with mustache )
- custom root directory support
- HTTPS support (with OpenSSL)
v0.2.0 (2016-07-08)
Features
- Bash completion by clap
- optional index.html detection
- handle 404 better
v0.1.0 (2016-07-07)
Features
- serve static files
- list files in directory
Notice
I've only tested on my x86_64 Linux. Other platforms are built by CI. If they don't work properly, please tell me.
Developement
Making Release
- update version in
src/cli.yml
- update version in
Cargo.toml
- update version in
Cargo.lock
- add git tag
Dependency of Shared Libraries
x86_64, Linux, no HTTPS
$ ldd ./target/release/wesers
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff05f4c000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f1531e71000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f1531c54000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f1531a3e000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f153169d000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f1532075000)
x86_64, Linux, with HTTPS
$ ldd ./target/release/wesers
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffdbe85000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f168b810000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f168b399000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f168b195000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f168af78000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f168ad62000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f168a9c1000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f168ba81000)
x86_64, Linux, musl, no HTTPS
$ ldd ./target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/wesers
not a dynamic executable
x86_64, Linux, musl, with HTTPS
$ ldd ./target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/wesers
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc55496000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f69cb9c8000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f69cb551000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f69cb1b0000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f69cafac000)
/lib/ld64.so.1 (0x00007f69cbc39000)
Special Thanks
- rust-everywhere for CI integration
- clap-rs for arguments parsing
- iron for Rust web framework
- mustache for HTML template
- Rust Team
- and every project I've used
License
wesers is licensed under the AGPL License - see the LICENSE
file for details