learn-http

learn-http is a basic, experimental HTTP server.

Usage

1. Run a server.

% cargo run --bin http-server

2. Access with a simple client.

% cargo run --bin http-client

Features

HTTP/0.9

HTTP/1.0 contains HTTP/0.9 features, and learn-http supports them.

HTTP/1.0

• Configuration

  • Content root
  • Host's IP address
  • Listen port
  • Extension status code
  • Allow
  • Content-Encoding
  • Expires
  • Location

• Header

  • Allow https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.1
  • Authorization https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.2
  • Content-Encoding https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.3
  • Content-Length
  • Content-Type
  • Date
  • Expires https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.7
  • From
  • If-Modified-Since
  • Last-Modified
  • Location
  • Pragma
  • Referer
  • Server
  • User-Agent
  • WWW-authenticate https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-10.16

• Additinal Header

  • Accept
  • Accept-Charset
  • Accept-Encoding
  • Accept-Language
  • Link
  • MIME-Version
  • Retry-After
  • Title
  • URI

• Access Authentication https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945#section-11

  • Basic authentication

HTTP/1.1

• Method

• Header

• Access Authentication https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-11

  • Digest authentication https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#ref-43