Building HTTP server from scratch

• your_program.sh builds the server and test binaries

Running locally

./your_program.sh

# watch mode
watchexec -w src -w include -w tests -r -- bash -c ./your_program.sh


# another terminal
# ping doesn't undertand ports (ICMP), nc is TCP/UDP
nc -vz localhost 4221

curl -v http://localhost:4221

oha http://localhost:4221

./your_program.sh --directory ./tmp/

curl -v -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" http://localhost:4221/echo/abc | hexdump -C

curl --http1.1 -v http://localhost:4221/echo/banana --next http://localhost:4221/user-agent -H "User-Agent: blueberry/apple-blueberry"

Unit tests

./build/test_string_utils
./build/test_http_server

Tips

# generate tree view of the project
tree -I "build|vcpkg_installed"