isabella232 / tinyweb

Tinyweb, a tiny web server in C

Tinyweb

Origins

Tinyweb came from https://github.com/shenfeng/tiny-web-server repository.

And the current repository is: https://github.com/cyd01/tinyweb

Contents

Tinyweb is a very light HTTP web server written in C. Here are the original features:

• Basic MIME mapping
• Very basic directory listing
• Low resource usage
• sendfile (Linux only)
• Support Accept-Ranges: bytes (for in browser MP4 playing)
• concurrency by pre-fork

And the new features recently added:

• Default index file
• 302 redirect for directory
• Expect: 100-continue
• DELETE, GET, HEAD, POST and PUT methods
• Basic Auth for PUT and DELETE method
• Very light dynamic script integration (scripts are *.sh)
• Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/cyd01/tinyweb/)