minimalistic HTTP web-server in C

A minimalistic HTTP server written in C that handles GET requests, serves files and supports MIME-type detection and logging

Features

• Serve raw contents of files over HTTP GET requests
• Simple 404 handling
• MIME type support
• Requests and Output logging
• Handling Bad requests

Overview

Build and Run

Compile

gcc server.c -o server

Run

./server

Then visit http://localhost:8080/index.html

Example requests

GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080