Webserv

Brought to you by the amazing Iris, Joppe and Liz.

Currently in the process of creating a slimmed down version of nginx from scratch in C++98

Structure

• Class::Config (global)

  • Reads and validates configuration file
  • Class::Server
    • Class::Location

• Class::Poller

  • Handles all incoming requests on poll()
  • Manages all open file descriptors
  • Attempts to read as much bytes as possible from client
  • Class::Client
    • Stores in progress raw read data
    • TODO: validate max body size
    • Class::Request
      • Attempts to parse raw incoming header bytes
      • Validates request line: HTTP version and method (GET/POST/DELETE)
      • Validates Host present
      • Validates Content-length
      • Stores request line attributes and header fields
      • Class::Header_field
        • Stores name and value

• Class::Router

  • Validates valid request
  • Routes requests to the right server
  • TODO: make class
  • TODO: match request with server in config

• Response::text() | Response::cgi() | ...

  • Generates response in accordance with the HTTP standard
  • TODO: class -> namespace

• Class::Constants

  • Stores key value pairs
    • HTTP codes
    • Content type

Incoming request flow

Poller::start()
Poller::read_pollfd()
Poller::_parse()
Raw bytes read
on_request()
TODO: Router::route()
Response::text() | Response::file() | ...
Done