battery-http-server

Copyright (C) 2012 - 2020

Marcin Kelar (marcin.kelar@gmail.com)

Fast and portable HTTP server.

Supported HTTP versions

• HTTP/1.0
• HTTP/1.1

Supported HTTP methods

• GET
• HEAD

Supported HTTP response codes

• 200 OK
• 204 No Content
• 206 Partial Content
• 302 Found
• 304 Not Modified
• 400 Bad Request
• 401 Authorization Required
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not Found
• 411 Length Required
• 412 Precondition Failed
• 413 Request Entity Too Large
• 414 Request Uri Too Long
• 416 Request Range Not Satisfiable
• 500 Server Error
• 501 Not Implemented
• 503 Service Unavailable
• 504 Not Implemented

Other features

• High performance (tested with Apache Benchmark - http://pastebin.com/zBG7nHbL)
  • Make use of epoll() or select()
  • Optional: make use of sendfile()
  • Advanced control over opened files
  • Simple internal cache mechanism
• Multiplatform (Windows/Linux)
• Basic Access Authentication
• Simple configuration
• Single-threaded
• Buffered event log

TODO

• Higher performance
  • epoll
  • cache 1.0 - based on current requests
  • cache 2.0 - time-based
• Rebuild event log
  • Mark standard access and error entries
  • Move LOG_BUFFER definition to battery.conf
• Add Accept-Encoding/Content-Encoding header support (gzip, deflate?)
• Add HTTPS support
• New CGI algorithm and effort to restore POST method
• Extend Basic Access Authentication configuration to work with .htaccess files
• Rebuild range-based data send
• Add method PUT
• Add method DELETE
• Add HTTP Proxy support
• Add IPv6 support

Battery HTTP Server configuration file is “build/configuration/battery.conf”.
For performance test please visit http://pastebin.com/zBG7nHbL

Compilation and installation

Linux

• make
• sudo make install

Windows

• -lws2_32

Special thanks to ZoczuS, the bug hunter from http://zoczus.blogspot.com!