Project Overview

HTTP server in C

A lightweight cross-platform HTTP server written in C from scratch. Learning project to understand how web servers work at a low level, from accepting TCP connections to parsing requests and sending responses.

Features

• Establishing an HTTP server on top of TCP sockets
• Receiving and parsing HTTP requests
• Sending HTTP responses

What I Learned

Creating this project taught me the fundamentals of how HTTP servers function and how they are built on top of TCP sockets, I learned:

• TCP socket creation
• Binding to a port
• Listening for incoming connections
• Accepting client connections
• Receiving HTTP requests
• Parsing HTTP request lines
• Parsing HTTP header lines
• Sending HTTP responses