Revision as of 15:29, 10 April 2017

HTTP Server over TCP/ICN

This is an implementation of a HTTP server able to serve client requests using both TCP and ICN as transport protocol.

This project is a fork from the http server implemented by Ole Christian Eidheim and open sourced at https://github.com/eidheim/Simple-Web-Server.

In the ICN flavour, so far, we support just the GET method. Later we'll be implementing the remaining methods as well.

Dependencies

• libboost-regex-dev
• libboost-system-dev
• libboost-filesystem-dev
• libicnet

Build the HTTP-Server

For building the library, from the root folder of the project:

 $ mkdir build && cd build
 $ cmake ..
 $ make

Install the HTTP-Server

For installing the application:

 $ cd build
 $ sudo make install

Usage

For starting the http-server, from the build folder:

 $ cd build
 $ ./http-server

The server now is: - serving files from the folder /var/www/html - Listening on the icn name /webserver - Listening on the TCP port 8080

For retrieving a content through icn, the name must have the following format:

iget http://webserver/get/file.mp4

The server accept two option through the command line:

 $ ./http-server -h
 http-server [-p PATH_TO_ROOT_FOOT_FOLDER] [-l WEBSERVER_PREFIX]

The default values are /var/www/html for the root folder and ccnx:/webserver for the icn name.

Platforms

Libicnet has been tested in:

- Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64)
- Debian Testing
- MacOSX 10.12

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