Simple HTTP Web Server

Simple version of HTTP Web Server.

Upcoming features:

1. Persistent connection (keep-alive)
2. HTTP version 1.1 compatibility
3. Platform Independent
4. Supported HTTP verbs (methods):
   • GET
   • POST
   • HEAD
5. Listens on default HTTP port 80
6. Serve HTML documents

Arrangements

which might not be accomplished:

1. HTTPS - Secure connection by TLS using OpenSSL libraries
2. Support HTTP 2.0
3. Create a better interface for RESTful services
4. Make support for more HTTP verbs:
   • OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE
5. Listen on port defined by user (e.g 8000)
6. Allow multiple resources types by adding Content-Type HTTP header:
   • JSON (Header: application/json)
   • XML (Header: application/xml)

Libraries:

• Socket – C++ low-level library for handling connection
• Boost Asio – One of the Boost's portable C++ source libraries. This library serves a rich interface and API for network programming