Implementation of a simple HTTP server with C++

• Run on Linux only
• It can handle a huge concurrent connections (> 10k).
• Only support HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1, with basic request methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE.
• Only support basic HTTP/1.1, persistent connections, focus on serving as much RPS as possible.
• Support basic request and response, request size < 4KB.
• The art of speed is about epoll, refer 63.4.5 of The Linux Programming Interface book

TBU

To install this server, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repository: git clone [email protected]:nguyenhien1994/simple-http-server.git
2. Navigate to the repository directory: cd simple-http-server
3. Build the source code:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. && make

To start the server, run ./HttpServer from the build directory.

The server will start on port 38080 by default.

Access the demo API via: localhost:38080/helloworld

Note: you may need to increase the resource limit with ulimit before running the server.

Benchmarking with wrk

• On the Laptop with 8 cores and 16GB RAM: It can serve > 200k rps and 10k concurrent connections

Contributions are welcome! Please open an issue or submit a pull request if you would like to contribute.

• Add basic design
• Add unittests
• Support more features HTTP/1.1
• Support send a receive message with large payload ...