http-server

This is a multi-threaded HTTP server that I wrote for the following reasons:

1. To deep-dive on HTTP
2. To learn Rust to have a modern systems-programming language in my toolbelt

It is not intended for production use

Features

• HTTP versions supported:
  • HTTP 0.9
  • HTTP 1.0
  • HTTP 1.1
• Multi-threading: a thread pool is used
  • I chose to write my own synchronised queue to push myself with the borrow checker and expose myself to Rust's synchronisation primitives
  • This is less efficient than using a MPSC channel like most sources recommend
• Support for arbitary route handlers via the Handler trait

Planned features

• Middleware support: should be a small change to RequestQueue as Handler already supports it
• IDN support: currently I am assuming that hostnames are in ASCII
• HTTP 2 support
• TLS support
• HTTP 3 support: the interfaces have been written with this in mind (HTTP 3 uses QUIC instead of TCP as the transport protocol)
• Concurrency improvements: move request parsing from the main thread to the worker threads and use non-blocking TCP sockets
  • This will drastically increase the maximum concurrent requests