Overview

High performance HTTP/1.1 server on Linux.

Contents

• Background
• Demo
• Benchmark
• Build Environment
• How to build?

Background

Originally, this repo is just a barebone HTTP/1.1 server with terribly performance. One day, an idea hit me. I wanna a website that can display the real-life usage of words or phrases that appeared in reliable materials like news websites because I've beening learning English for many years and I stillllll have so much uncertainty in the language. I major in English not Computer Science, English language is really important in my daily life 😛. And by the way, the news database is downloaded from 2.7 million news articles and essays. The Sqlite3 database used in demo is just a tiny part of this huge dataset.

Demo

You can easily look up an English word/phrase by typing it into the search bar( Ignore the bad-looking home page ) and click "Go" to search for it.

It will highlights the word/phrase that you search. And you can further go into the original page by clicking on the hyper-link at the right side of each entity.

Benchmark

Benchmark is done with the help of siege

Recent benchmark with terribly bad performance :^)

Transactions:                   6732 hits
Availability:                 100.00 %
Elapsed time:                  59.89 secs
Data transferred:              76.16 MB
Response time:                  8.23 secs
Transaction rate:             112.41 trans/sec
Throughput:                     1.27 MB/sec
Concurrency:                  925.22
Successful transactions:        6732
Failed transactions:               0
Longest transaction:           11.36
Shortest transaction:           0.00

Build Environment

• Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
• GCC 9.3.0
• Cmake
• Googletest
• redis-plus-plus

How to build?

git clone https://github.com/Bitate/HttpServer
cd HttpServer
bash build.sh

Useful links that help me build this project

HTTP Related

• HTTP Status Code

  • HTTP status codes with concrete example
  • Mozilla HTTP response status codes
  • HTTP Status Codes

• Uri

  • https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_url

• Percent encoding

  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/percent-encoding
  • https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
  • https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/oauth-1-0a/percent-encoding-parameters

• Message Content

  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18180539/how-to-determine-the-content-type-in-an-http-response
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5661596/do-i-need-a-content-type-header-for-http-get-requests
  • http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addtype