you could try using https://libuv.org/ and https://github.com/h2o/picohttpparser
Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
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Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#52You might find my epollserver interesting. It multiplexes multiple clients (sockets) over a thread, so you can write an event loop in each thread and serve far more requests per thread than you could if it was one thread per client or one process per client. (epollserver_threaded.c) It uses a thread safe multiconsumer multiproducer ringbuffer to communicate between threads. https://github.com/samsquire/epoll-server I…
This sounds really interesting. Thanks for the share.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I follow - you want a smart, small webserver that takes in a http request and updates an analytic store based on headers? Sounds like something nginx might handle via lua scripting? Otherwise, maybe you want: https://github.com/lammertb/libhttp Or you might want to look at either of: https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ https://github.com/openbsd/src/tree/master/usr.sbin/httpd If you really want to buil…
I want to consume HTTP headers at the lowest possible level. The webserver would output a custom log file for direct consumption. There are certainly off the shelf options, but I enjoy reinventing the wheel and dislike dependencies. I'd like to use C because I have interest in OS level webservers.
this is a 500 line server running in kernel mode on nanos
https://github.com/nanovms/nanos/blob/master/src/http/http.c
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#54I remember using this tutorial to build a web server that handles sockets. Short source code, excludes edge cases, but useful to understand the gist of web servers. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-does-webserver-actuall...
The tutorial has been moved to https://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php?n=Site.Nweb.
Thanks for the share.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#55Someone on HN made this [0] a couple of weeks or months ago. You code a web server to solve each of the different problems. It's language agnostic but it looks like a great way to learn.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
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Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#57Complete OpenBSD + Sqlite + C + httpd toolkit for building websites. http://bsd.lv/ I recommend swapping out C for a safer&more productive language.
Is there a safe and productive language that produces binaries that run fast? Between the rising energy prices and CO2 pollution it would be very irresponsible to use languages like Python or Ruby.
Go help you save more CO2 by compiling your code in a blink
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a safe and productive language that produces binaries that run fast? Between the rising energy prices and CO2 pollution it would be very irresponsible to use languages like Python or Ruby.
Go help you save more CO2 by compiling your code in a blink
Yeah, fast compilation (like C has) helps.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#59If you want to do something simple, read Beej's Guide to Networking (many other have recommended it in this thread) to learn networking fundamentals and C APIs. Next, learn about HTTP - MDN is a good resource, but may go too in depth for this project at times. HTTP 1.1 is super simple. The best thing about HTTP? It's all just plain text and newlines. Parsing it is super easy. This is a good learning exercise - good luck on it.
Re: Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
#60"Write a tiny web server in C" was a standard exercise when I was in high school, and later again in university. I think I did that at least 3 times as an assignment so far. I reused the final version for a different university exercise instead of bothering with Tomcat as I was required, and back in 2015, dumped the end result here: https://github.com/AgentD/websrv where I kept adding to it for a while for fun. The H…
I agree that writing the network code is more interesting. Perhaps make a really simple proxy server that accepts connections and forwards data to another http server