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#NCSA-httpd-2.0

A simple web server, written from scratch, in C, with unit tests in the Check framework (http://check.sourceforge.net). The goal is to be simple and fast. Ultimately, the goals are in line with the C10K Problem.

The name is because I work for NCSA Athletic Recruiting, and we always joke about "our httpd" when we open the apache configuration file and see the message about it being based on Rob McCool's work for the original NCSA httpd.

See what I did there?

The idea came about because we work with an excellent consulting firm (http://www.8thlight.com) who has all their apprentices complete this as a sort of final project. I feel weak at low level programming, haven't done C in years, haven't done sockets since ECE 338 in 1998, and this sounded like a big enough to be far from trivial but small enough to be doable type of project.

I will probably also keep a running commentary here on what I'm doing and where it's headed. If you're interested in also writing a web server from scratch, please by all means contact me.

Ultimately I envision something with pthreads and kqueue/kevent based event notifications, but I haven't done much research on that stuff yet and it'll be weeks before I'm ready to write that kind of code.

The first milestone is to have something that passes the Fitnesse suite contained at https://github.com/patrickgombert/cob_spec.

##BUILDING You will need a few libraries installed. To run the tests, you will need the Check framework.

This is being developed on a Mac running OSX Mountain Lion. It /should/ work on Linux, at least for now. In the future it may become BSD specific via kqueue (which I don't think is available on Linux).