A simple Linux/Windows/MacOS HTTP server, written for educational purposes. Written in pure C++11, no libraries or 3rd party code used.

• Cross-platform: Linux, Windows and MacOS supported
• Multithreaded, single process
• Up to 1000 concurrent requests support
• Supported HTTP request types:
  • GET
• Supported HTTP response types:
  • 200 (OK)
  • 404 (Not Found)
• Supported MIME types:
  • image/bmp
  • image/jpeg
  • image/png
  • image/gif
  • application/pdf
  • text/html
  • text/plain
  • audio/mpeg
  • video/mp4
  • application/octet-stream
• Directory listing supported
• Support of non alphanumeric URIs
• Performance:
  • 10K local queries per second in a single thread
  • 22K local queries per second in multiple threads

Licensed under the GPL license

Andrew Sheetov <andrew.sheetov@gmail.com> 2014