How to run

• clone the repo using git clone
• run make in the root directory of the project
• run the executable in the bin/ folder

Note

You can customize the executable name my changing the EXE_NAME variable in the makefile

Features

bonus points for not using any external library apart from the win32 api

• Can parse GET requests and respond with the right file
• Ability to set a webroot
• Mitigation against LFI and path-trasversal malicious requests
• Starts an HTTP web server in the current working directory

Aditional stuff

• a sample website to test the server with

Known issues

• Many headers get ignored
• Uses HTTP/1.1 which is quite old
• Supports only GET requests
• Lack of protection against certain malformed requests
• Gets confused when sending binary data, like images (only svg files are supported)
• Server may need to be terminated with task manager (idk why it persists, may be a thread)
• Windows only (relies heavily on the Win32 API)