C HTTP Server

The following code is a C HTTP Server written with sockets (sys/sockets.h). The purpose of this project was to relearn C, and learn about how the HTTP protocol works.

Note: This server is extremely simple and just demonstrates the basic concept of how HTTP works.

Goal

My goal was to create a simple socket based server that could accept GET and POST requests from curl, and serve an html web page that could be accessed from a browser.

Features

• GET
  • Returns a very simple HTML web page
• POST
  • Returns a basic summary of the request it got. This includes all headers, and in the case that a file is present, includes a small print out stating how many bytes of the content type it received in the POST request.

Author: Timothy J Cain (sonofenoch)