TCP Secure Web Server

By Christopher Linscott, Alec Phillips, Joey Rose

A simple, web server made with TCP Web Sockets.

To get things setup,

• Fork this repository
• Clone it into your working directory
• You're good to go!

To initialize a web server on your device,

• Navigate to /server-and-client/server.c in your terminal
• Run gcc server.c -Wall -o se
• Run /se {portNumber} and you should see it begin listening on the given server port.
  • Ex: /se 2000 will run a web server on port 2000.

Two ways to connect to said web server:

• Use the browser!

  • A normal GET Request will look something like: http://localhost:{portNumber}/{path to file from root}
    • Ex: http://localhost:1000/desktop/dogs/cat.html will attempt to GET a file called cat.html in the folder named 'dogs' (which is a subdirectory of 'desktop').

• However, in general (and for PUT and DELETE Requests), I highly recommend Postman. But, PUT Requests are possible in the browser as well.

  • For both, it requires using query params (or basically writing in the URL), and a request body (for the data we want in the file).
  • Example in Postman:
    • 
  • We will now see the data here in our file system at /desktop/dogs/cat.html:
    • 

• Use the client side

  • Initalize another terminal
  • Run gcc client.c -Wall -o ce
  • Run ./ce {portNumber} and you should see it connect (if the server is running), asking for a HTTP Request.
    • Example HTTP Requests (there are issues currently with copy and paste :/) :
      • GET /desktop/cats/dogs.html HTTP/1.1
        Host: localhost:2000
        Connection: keep-alive
      • PUT /desktop/cats/dogs.html HTTP/1.1
        Host: localhost:2000
        Connection: keep-alive
        
        This is some cool file data! (◕‿◕)