shockd

shockd is a simple webserver written in C. You can use it to serve static files.

Features

• Accepts HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 requests with GET and POST methods.

• Serves HTML, CSS, JS, images, executables or any other files

• Logs all requests and errors to file

• Multi-threading (every new connection is processed in new thread)

• HTTP ETag cache support

• It is fast enough for home usage :D

Building

shockd supports Windows and Unix based systems with sockets and pthread support.

1.Get source code by downloading archive or by git clone

2.Build for your platform using make:

For Windows:

make win32

For Linux:

make linux

Config

You can configure server by editing options in shockd.conf file.

Check default config, it has explanation in comments.

TODO

• Add CGI support

• Add keep-alive support

• Implement config parser and use it

• POST body parser

• Add cache support

• Simple module system?

• Logging to files

How server handles HTTP request

When incoming connection is received on TCP socket, server tries to create new thread that will process the request and make a response. (function processRequest in main.c)

It creates empty shock_request_t struct object that will represent the request itself. Then calls parser to fill the request (function shock_parse_request in request.c). Then, server tries to send file requested by browser chunk-by-chunk over TCP and then closes the connection (function shock_serve_file in response.c)

Contributing

If you found a bug, security caveat or want to request a feature - create an issue

If you want to improve code, close existing issues - create a pull request

Code must be working, cross-platform and clean.