Java Web Server

A simple multi-threaded HTTP 1.0 Server implemented in Java for educational purposes based on W3C specifications (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/):

• W3 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/0.9
• RFC 1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
• RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
• RFC 2617 HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication
• RFC 6265 HTTP State Management Mechanism (Cookies)

For a more reliable solution, please check Jigsaw, W3C Java HTTP 1.1 server implementation (http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/) or other existing open source Java
web servers (http://java-source.net/open-source/web-servers).

This software is released under FreeBSD license.

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RUNNING

The Java Web Server runs on any Operational System with Java (JRE) 1.6+ installed

To start the Java Web Server, download the application jar file and run the following command:

$ java -jar web-server.jar <PORT_NUMBER>

To stop the Simple Web server, just press Cntr+C on the command line. (The parameter PORT_NUMBER is optional, default port is 8080)

COMPILING

Step 1 - Install Requirements

To download and compile the source code you need to install:

• Java SDK v1.6+
• Maven v2.0+
• Git v1.7+

Step 2 - Get the source code

Download the project source code from GitHub repository (https://github.com/dasanjos/java-WebServer)

$ git clone git://github.com/dasanjos/java-WebServer

This will create a folder "java-WebServer" containing the project source files.

Step 3 - Compile it!

Go to the project root folder and run the following command:

$ mvn clean package

This will create a "target" folder containing the application jar file: java-WebServer-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar