Pico HTTP Server in C

This is a very simple HTTP server for Unix, using fork(). It's very easy to use.

How to use

1. Include header httpd.h.
2. Write your route method, handling requests.
3. Call serve_forever("8000") to start serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

See main.c, an interesting example.

To log stuff, use fprintf(stderr, "message");

View httpd.h for more information.

Quick start

1. Run make.
2. Run ./server or ./server [port] (port = 8000 by default).
3. Open http://localhost:8000/ or http://localhost:8000/test in browser to see request headers.

Testing and benchmarking

I suggest using Siege utility for testing and benchmarking the Pico HTTP server.

> siege -i -f urls.txt

Links

Reworked and refactored from https://gist.github.com/laobubu/d6d0e9beb934b60b2e552c2d03e1409e.

Based on http://blog.abhijeetr.com/2010/04/very-simple-http-server-writen-in-c.html.