Design

[Sangyao42]

• configuration parser: data structure to discuss before testing

• socket manager and pass it to http request parser

• a parse tree is saved for each socket, it is possible that not everything is received in the same iteration

• http request parser -- choose headers for the server

• decision making logic (how to handle this http request)

  • find the server block the matches the following:
  • 'server_name' field that matches the domain name specified in the Host header
  • 'listen' field that matches the port that the connection is connecting to
  • handle get, post, delete using the selected server block

• response body generation

  • by executing a cgi
  • reading a file
  • generating a html file representing a directory (if autoindex is on)
  • html generation (e.g. 404)

• response header

  • status code
  • headers (including content length)

[Sangyao42]

• signal handler