SHWS - Simple Haskell Web Server

SHWS is a simple web server written in Haskell.

Features

• handles HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 (persistent) connections and requests
• concurrent (can handle multiple connections at the same time)
• configurable via a configuration file
• logging
• client connection timeout

Limitations

• only a basic subset of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 is implemented (for example, only GET and HEAD methods are implemented)
• large files transfer can cause memory exhaustion

Requirements

• ghc (6.8) with the following additional packages and modules:
  • html (1.0.1.1)
  • http (3001.0.4)
  • hunit (1.2.0.0) - optional
  • network (2.1.0.0)
  • parallel (1.0.0.0)
  • regex (0.93.1)
  • stream (0.2.2)
  • time (1.1.2.0)
• haddock (0.8) for generating documentation - optional

Compilation

• simply run make in the project's root directory
• to compile the project tester, run make test instead

Synopsis

./shws -f|--config-file CONFIG_FILE_PATH

CONF_FILE_PATH - path to the configuration file (e.g. shws.cfg)

Usage examples

./shws -f ./default.cfg

Tested on

Debian 5.0, kernel 2.6.28, x86_64

Author

Petr Zemek s3rvac@gmail.com, 2009

License

Copyright (C) 2009 Petr Zemek s3rvac@gmail.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.