Webserv.en.subject.pdf

WebServ

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All the specifications for this projects are explained in the linked PDF.

The goal of this project is to implement a basic HTTP Web Server capable of handling multiple clients requests

The point of this Notion page is to consolidate the gathered information used for this project and document the progression.

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• This project must be written in C++98
• No external libraries, Boost, etc. allowed
• We will consider that Nginx is HTTP 1.1 compliant and may be used to compare headers and answer behaviors.
• Poll, select, kqueue, and epoll are all allowed
• Sockets must be non-blocking and use only 1 method of those mentioned above
• The used method MUST check read and write at the same time
• Checking the value of errno after after a read or a write is FORBIDDEN
• A request to the server should never hang forever
• The server should have default error pages if none are provided
• The server should not leak and should never crash, (even when out of memory if all the initialization is done)