SYNOPSIS

A simple http server backed by libuv and http-parser.

EXAMPLE

#include "http.h"

int main() {

  Server hs([](auto &req, auto &res) {
    
    res.setStatus(200);
    res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain");
    res.setHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
    res << req.method << " " << req.url << endl;
 
  });
  
  hs.listen("0.0.0.0", 8000);
}

PERFORMANCE

Just for fun. Without any real statistical significance, here are some quick averages from apache ab, run on an old macbook air. Also neat is that libuv-http uses about 400KB of memory compared to Node.js' 10-15MB.

libuv-http

Requests per second:    16333.46 [#/sec] (mean)

node.js

Requests per second:    3366.41 [#/sec] (mean)

DEVELOPMENT

REQUIREMENTS

• clang 3.5
• gyp
• leveldb
• libuv
• http-parser

REQUIREMENTS (Windows)

git clone https://github.com/joyent/libuv.git deps/libuv
cd deps/libuv 
git checkout v0.11.29
cd..

git clone https://github.com/joyent/http-parser.git deps/http-parser
cd deps/http-parser  
git checkout v2.3
cd ..

gyp --depth=. --generator-output=build -Duv_library=shared_library

DEBUGGING

VALGRIND

valgrind --leak-check=yes --track-origins=yes --dsymutil=yes ./server

BUILD

make