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To-dos

File configuration

• Define file configuration. Explore Nginx file configurations and define the properties that our file config would have.
• File configuration parser (syntax errors, comments etc).

WebServer Communications

• Get ready to listen to specified ip:port(s), in an own process.
• Process the requests and send back the information.
• Locations Parser

Resources

• Chat-GPT Simple Function Explanation and Differences between poll(), select(), kqueue(), or epoll().
• RFC 7231 HTTP protocol(June 2014)
• RFC 2616 HTTP protocol(June 1999)
• Unix Network Programming Volume 1
• select, poll, epoll and kqueue
• HTTP status codes and messages
• URL enconding

Example Repositories

• WebServer with epoll and kqueue Author: rabarbra
• WebServer with kqueue Author: Bsomers42

Interesting WEBS

• CGI in HTTP protocoll

Video Transfer

• Http Range Request and MP4 Video Play in Browser