Blaze-HTTP is an asynchronous web server written in C. The goal is to make this server blazingly fast by using non-blocking sockets and I/O multiplexing provived by epoll syscall in linux. Currently, the server implements GET requests, capable of sending html, css, javscripts, images. More functionality is to be added at a later date.
The asynchronous server runs in a event loop, polling for sockets that are ready to be read, and instantly responding the GET requests. Non-blocking sockets and epoll combined gives us another way to handle multiple client connections without creating more threads, thus the code is single-threaded and doesn't have any overhead of multiple threads.
There aren't a lot of requirement. Just ensure that cmake is installed and you are using linux.
wrk was used to benchmark the server. As you can see, it can handle high load of connections, with low latency and can server 67K requests per second.
- Clone this repository
- Create a build folder. This is where you'll run the cmake and make commands.
mkdir build - move into the build folder and execute cmake.
cd build && cmake .. - run make
make - Copy the main executable to the folder which has your html, css, js files
and run the command by giving the port as the argument.
./main 9999
- Add support for POST request
- Validation of HTTP request (it currently doesn't check if your request is in a valid format)
- Better support for sending large files
- Increase memory efficiency