smolserver - a small http-server written in Rust

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✨ Features

• File Handling: Supports both reading and creating files. Perfect for file manipulation operations through HTTP requests.

• User Agent Routing: Special handling for requests with the User-Agent header.

• Echo Route: You can echo back whatever is appended to the /echo/ endpoint, making it useful for quick tests.

• Educational: Designed primarily as a learning exercise to understand the workings of a basic HTTP server in Rust.

• Extensible: Despite its simplicity, the server can be further developed and integrated into larger projects.

🛠 How It Works

• GET /: Returns HTTP 200 for index routes.

• GET /user-agent: Returns HTTP 200 and echoes back the User-Agent if present in the request headers.

• GET /echo/{message}: Returns HTTP 200 and echoes back the {message}. For example, a GET request to /echo/hello would return "hello".

• GET /files/{name_of_file}: If the file exists in the directory (provided as a command line argument), it returns the file with HTTP 200. Otherwise, returns HTTP 404.

• POST /files/{name_of_file}: Creates a new file in the directory (provided as a command line argument) with the content from the request body. Returns HTTP 201 with a success message.

💡 What to Learn

This is an excellent project to understand:

• Basic HTTP protocol operations
• Socket programming in Rust
• Multi-threading
• File I/O
• Simple routing logic

📜 License

This project is open-sourced under the MIT license. See the License file for more information. Free forever.

Happy coding! 🦀