min-server

Introduction

Minimalistic C++ HTTP(s) server for easy serving of static files. It's useful for testing emscripten WASM frontends. It can also be made to serve dynamic content with custom entry points and bare-bones API.

Building

cmake -B build && cmake --build build -j `nproc`

Static Usage

It automatically serves main_page.html and index.html from the directory where the binary is located. Other serve dirs can be added as command line arguments. The root path is the executable directory.

./min-server /dir1 /dir2 /dir3

Dynamic Usage

The function Server::AddHandler(const char* endpointRegex, ConnectionHandler handler); gives the ability to add custom handler for an entry point. The ConnectionHandler takes ConnectionState argument that contains info for the current connection and supports the following API:

StrView GetRequestBody() const;
void AddHeader(CStr name, CStr value);
void AddToBody(CStr contents);
void SetResponseToJSON();
void Reply(U32 code = 200);

U32 GetRemoteIPv4Address() const;
U16 GetRemotePort() const;


B IsSecure() const;

Str GetCookieValue(CStr valueName);
void SetCookieValue(
                     CStr valueName,
                     CStr value,
                     CStr path = "/",
                     B secure = true,
                     B sameSite = true,
                     B httpOnly = true
                   );