Multi-thread HTTP Server

Description

This project is a multi thread web server which is able to handing GET request from clients. The server allows up to 200 threads in total and maintain a request queue up to 100 request in size. The server will log activity and errors.

How to use it

The project should be unzipped into a folder containing the following items. SourceCode/ includes all source code and makefile. testing/ contains testing resources and server log.

HttpServer
  - SourceCode/
    - makefile
    - server.c
    - util.h
    - util.o
  - testing/
    - image/
    - text/
    - how_to_test
    - web_server_log
    - urls
  - README.md

To compile the program, do the following and web_server should be generated.

$ cd SourceCode
$ make

To test the program on port 9000 with 100 worker, 100 dispatch, and 100-size request queue:

$ /web_server 9999 /home/<path to project directory>/csci4061-project4/testing 100 100 100 10

Start a different terminal window and run:

$ wget -i /home/<path to project directory>/testing/urls -O myres

The program will be tested with 4800 requests contained in /testing/urls and server response s will be stored in /testing/myres files. Log will be saved in /csci4061-project4/testing/web_server_log

Error handling

number of worker should be between 0 - 100
number of dispatch should be between 0 - 100
size of the request queue should be between 0 - 100
server will log error when fail to return the resources
server will be killed when receiving SIGINT, unprocessed request in request queue will be lost
dispatch thread will exit upon failure and other thread will continue

Author

Trevor Lecrone
Al Swenson
Zixiang Ma