Here is my additional remarks

Install

git clone https://github.com/liangguohuan/tiny-web-server.git
sudo make install

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Usage

tinyserver [dir] [port] ...

New Feature

• auto add slash and send status 301 if request is dir
• auto index file index.html
• use dataTables to show files friendly if request is dir
• more commands in Makefile
  • check
    check compile error
  • install
    command tinyserver will be installed in /usr/local/bin
  • uninstall
    remove command tinyserver and config files
• cache dir list if exec overtime 3 seconds
• open file with xdg-open and send status 403 if mime type not support

Change Logs

• 2017-06-30 the standard codes for clang
• 2017-06-29 limit for parsing request header when loop rio_readinitb()
• 2017-06-29 fixed strange thing return empty call rio_readlineb()
• 2017-06-28 perfect tiny.c and add new feature cache dir list
• 2017-06-28 replace c99 into c11 and more commands in Makefile
• 2017-06-27 use dataTables to show nicely in handle_directory_request
• 2017-06-27 video mime type not support call system program
• 2017-06-25 Disabled warning: implicit-function-declaration
• 2017-06-25 fixed mp4 stream range request
• 2017-06-25 auto add slash if request is dir
• 2017-06-25 add auto index file feture

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A tiny web server in C

I am reading Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. It teachers me how to write a tiny web server in C.

I have written another tiny web server in JAVA.

And another one http-kit, http-kit is full featured, with websocket and async support

And few others on my github page.

Features

1. Basic MIME mapping
2. Very basic directory listing
3. Low resource usage
4. sendfile(2)
5. Support Accept-Ranges: bytes (for in browser MP4 playing)
6. Concurrency by pre-fork

Non-features

1. No security check

Usage

tiny <port>, opens a server in the current directory, port default to 9999, just like python -m SimpleHTTPServer

I use it as a lightweight File Browser.

TODO

1. Write a epoll version

License

The code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.