This project is about recoding a server using the HTTP/1.1 protocol. To do that we used C++ language and Socket/Network programming. This represents layers 4 to 7 of TCP/IP protocol. We discovered principles of multiplexing (using poll function for all files descriptors of the programm), but also went deep down into how requests (chunked or not, encoded or not) and responses work (with and without CGIs) by parsing and building them. We also discovered different HTTP methods since we implemented GET, POST and DELETE. We also implemented a quite simple static website that shows implemented features directly on the browser.
It was really interesting to implement and discover a protocol that we use everyday without even notice it and understand a little bit deeper how internet works.
Your system must have clang compiler to create the binary. If you want launch the website we implemented, you must have installed php-cgi on your machine.
make && ./webserv conf/webserv.conf
This will bind you on port 8080 and port 8181 on the 127.0.0.1 IP.
dont forget to change line cgi .php path_of_your_php-cgi on conf webserv.conf
visit on your browser http://localhost:8080.