cws

A minimal web server. This is a personal project; it is not intended to be a production-ready tool, nor will it ever be. Use it at your own risk.

Requirements

• meson
• libcyaml
• myclib (on my profile)
• doxygen
  • Optional, just to build the docs. It requires dot.

How to build

$ meson setup build
$ cd build
$ meson compile

And then run cws!

Docs

$ git submodule update --init
$ doxygen

And then open the docs/html/index.html.

Roadmap

• HTTPS support with TLS
• Support for virtual hosts
• CLI args

Future

• Custom web pages (404)
• IPv6 compatible
• Multithreading to handle concurrent requests
• Logging
• Compression (Gzip)
• Reverse proxy
• PHP-FPM

Performance

This test was performed using wrk.

wrk command

$ wrk -t12 -c400 -d30s http://127.0.0.1:3030/index.html

Running 30s test @ http://localhost:3030
  12 threads and 400 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     3.45ms    2.37ms  91.92ms   95.45%
    Req/Sec    10.08k     1.33k   19.57k    82.30%
  3621422 requests in 32.47s, 2.55GB read
  Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 395
Requests/sec: 111514.25
Transfer/sec:     80.51MB