Http-server

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
• libcurl

Install the HTTP-Server

Installation from binary packages

Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04

 $ echo "deb [trusted=yes] https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.master.ubuntu.$(lsb_release -sc).main/ ./" \
          | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/99fd.io.list
 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install http-server

Centos 7

$ cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/99fd.io.repo
[fdio-cicn-master]
name=fd.io master branch latest merge
baseurl=https://nexus.fd.io/content/repositories/fd.io.master.centos7/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF
$ sudo yum install http-server

Installation from source code

For installing the application:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
$ 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 prefix http://webserver
• Listening on the TCP port 8080

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

$ iget http://webserver/file.mp4

The application iget is available in the package libicnet.

The server accept three option through the command line:

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

The default values for the first two parameters are /var/www/html for the root folder and http://webserver as icn prefix served.

The http-server can also be used as a transparent proxy: if the resources to retrieve are stored in a remote location and they are available over http, it is possible to retrieve them by specifying their location when starting the http-server, in this way:

 $ ./http-server -x myvideos.org

The server will perform the following operations:

• When it receives the first client request, it will look for the asked resource locally
• If the resource is not available, it will forward the HTTP request to the remote origin myvideos.com
• The remote origin will reply with the content (or with an error code)
• The reply will be forwarded to the client

Platforms

Http-server has been tested in:

• Ubuntu 16.04 (x86_64)
• Ubuntu 14.04 (x86_64)
• Debian Testing
• MacOSX 10.12
• CentOS 7