Reginaldo Web Server and Web Downloader

Reginaldo Web Server and Reginaldo Web Downloader are very simple Web Apps written by Reginaldo Coimbra Vieira for his Master Degree Program. They were practical activities by Ph.D. Professor Flávio Luiz Schiavoni for his Computer Network class.

Written in Node.js.

TOC

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Running Reginaldo Web Server
  • Running Reginaldo Web Downloader
• Files/Folder Structure
• Built With
• Changelog
• Author
• License

Getting Started

In order to run Reginaldo Web Server (server.js) and Reginaldo Web Downloader (client.js), you need to have the prerequisites below installed on your machine.

Prerequisites

• Node.js

Running Reginaldo Web Server

Type the following command:

$ git clone https://github.com/recovieira/web.git web
$ cd web
$ node server <path_to_the_document_root_folder> <port_number>

If the "port_number" parameter were not specified, it will be set to 80 by default.

Examples of valid commands are:

$ node server /var/www      # same as "node server /var/www 80"

$ node server ./ 8080       # current folder as document root and 8080 as HTTP port

$ node server ./wwwroot 80  # use "wwwroot" as document root and 80 as HTTP port

Stop it with both Ctrl+C keys whenever you want to.

Running Reginaldo Web Downloader

Type the following command, if you have not got the source code yet:

$ git clone https://github.com/recovieira/web.git web
$ cd web

Valid parameters are:

$ node client -h
Usage:
  node client [OPTION]

Options:
  -o file to save (default: standard output)
  -h show this help
  -x show received headers

Examples:

$ node client 127.0.0.1 -x
$
$ node client 127.0.0.1 -x > save_to_a_file
$ node client 127.0.0.1 -x -o or_save_it_this_way
$
$ node client 127.0.0.1 -x > /dev/null # to test transfering only
$
$ node client www.anydomain.whatevertld/whateverpath # default: port 80 and http protocol
$ node client www.anydomain.whatevertld:8080/whateverpath # default: http protocol
$ node client http://www.anydomain.whatevertld:8080/whateverpath
$ node client https://www.anydomain.whatevertld:8181/whateverpath

Files/Folder Structure

Brief content structure:

├── client.js			# the **Reginaldo Web Downloader**
├── getopt.js			# extra lib (node-getopt)
├── lib.js			# extra functions written by Reginaldo
├── LICENSE
├── README.md			# this info :)
├── server.js			# the Reginaldo Web Server
└── wwwroot			# a document root folder sample
    └── index.html

Built With

• node-getopt

Changelog

V 1.0.0

Initial Release

Author

Reginaldo Coimbra Vieira (recovieira@gmail.com)

License

Reginaldo Web Server and Reginaldo Web Downloader are licensed under The MIT License (MIT). You can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and/or sell copies of the final products, but you always need to state that Reginaldo Coimbra Vieira (recovieira@gmail.com) is the original author of these simple codes and assign a link to https://github.com/recovieira/web.