TritonHTTP

TritonHTTP is a lightweight web server that implements a subset of the HTTP/1.1 protocol, specifically designed to handle GET requests. This project is a practical exploration of HTTP server functionalities, focusing on concurrency, request parsing, and response handling.

Features

• Basic Web Server: Listens for connections and processes HTTP requests from clients.
• Persistent Connections: Supports reuse of TCP connections for improved efficiency.
• Request Handling: Properly parses and responds to HTTP GET requests.
• Error Responses: Implements appropriate HTTP status codes (200, 400, 404).
• Virtual Hosting: Supports multiple hostnames, mapping to unique directories.
• Timeout Mechanism: Closes connections after a configurable timeout period.

Supported HTTP Headers

• Request Headers:
  • Host (required)
  • Connection (optional)
• Response Headers:
  • Date
  • Last-Modified
  • Content-Type
  • Content-Length
  • Connection

For detailed specification, refer to docs/theory.pdf.

Setup

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mayank-02/tritonhttp.git
cd tritonhttp

# Install dependencies
go mod tidy

# Run tests
go test ./...

# Run the server
go run server.go

# Open your browser and navigate to `http://localhost:PORT`.

Configuration

• Virtual Hosts: Define your host-to-directory mappings in virtual_hosts.yaml.
• Server Port: Modify the default port in the configuration section of main.go if needed.

Testing

Automated tests are provided to verify server functionality:

go test -v

You can also use command-line tools like curl or netcat to test the server responses. Example:

curl -v http://localhost:PORT/path/to/resource

Contributions

Contributions are welcome! Please fork the repository and submit a pull request for review.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.