http server

Super basic http server in c++ with no extra dependencies.

Just a simple c++ class to serve HTTP GET requests in a port. No thread is created by this class, but with the interface you can poll for activity before timeout.

No argument parsing or fancy checkings. But it's super easy to return data from a mobile app back to a PC.

Uses miniz library to compress answers to the client (taken from https://github.com/richgel999/miniz).

Demo VisualStudio

Open VisualStudio (2015/2017). Compile the solution on folder visualc and run it. Open a browser and enter http://localhost:8080 The browser will request two files, an html and a bunch of png images.

Demo OSX

cd osx
make
make run

Open a browser and enter http://localhost:8080 The browser will request two files, an html and the png image.

Usage

Derive your own class from HTTP::CBaseServer, and implement the method:

  bool onClientRequest(const TRequest& r) override;

Do whatever you need and write the server results in the client socket. This method is called from the thread which called the server.tick or server.runForEver(). See the example at example/main.cpp

You probably want to do our own stuff and check for activity periodically. The argument in the tick method is the amount of time (in usecs) to wait before returning. 0 will wait nothing

  CMyServer server;
  if (!server.open(8080))
    return -1;
  do {
    // .. your other code
    server.tick(0);
    // .. your other code
  }