Lately I've been on an HTTP (1.1) server writing frenzy, and I decided to try Python 3.x for implementing a toy web server. This is a toy project made only for learning purposes and to show off my skills. Finally, I credit the "HTTP Made Really Easy" guide and RFC 9112 as my references. Feel free to fork, etc.

• Basic message reading:
  • Basic syntax checks are done.
  • Headers such as Host, Content-Length and Content-Type are checked.
• Persistent or closing connection handling.
• HEAD and GET methods.
• Basic cache control headers are supported.

• Producer-Worker thread pooling for handling multiple connections (WIP)
• Graceful shutdown (WIP)

1. On multiple tabs from Firefox, only one worker is providing service although another is also awake. This could be dependent on varying browser behavior on refresh. Edge / Chrome usually restarts a new connection on a random port, but Firefox seems more conservative with starting new connections?

• curl --verbose -I http://localhost:8080/index.html (HEAD of static resource)
• curl --verbose -X GET http://localhost:8080/index.html (GET page)
• curl --verbose -X GET http://localhost:8080/info.html (GET page)
• curl --verbose -X GET http://localhost:8080/index.html -H "Connection: Close" -H "If-Modified-Since: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:59:59 GMT" (GET page with update date check... modify public/index.html to test this.)

1. Refactor server code to be cleaner: modular, well-named, etc. (WIP)
2. Add URL parsing for relative and absolute URLs.
3. Add threading. (WIP)
4. Support 100 Continue. (To do...)

1a. On a Mac or UNIX system, run ifconfig -a in the terminal and find your IPv4 address under inet. 1b. On Windows, run ipconfig in the shell and find your IPv4 address. 2. Create a config.json file in the project root folder. It should follow this format:

{
   "serveaddr": "localhost",
   "port": 8080,
   "backlog": 4
}

3. Run python3 src/main.py for Mac, or python src/main.py for Windows within the project root folder.
4. Make requests with cURL or your browser!