Project 1: Web server

Your first project is to design and implement a web server. A webs erver should receive and handle HTTP requests through network (sockets) while supporting parallel requests using multi-threading. To design a webserver, you need to implement several steps:

1. Set up the networking: Initialise the network with sockets, and write a small client that connects to your server. You can use the sockets cheat sheet to help you.
2. Process HTTP requests: you should be able to receive well-formed HTTP requests from arbitrary client. You will need to get requests from the network, parse them and implement the methods to serve them. You should focus on having a working implementation of the handling of GET requests. You can use the HTTP cheat sheet to see how to parse and handle requests. You only need to implement GET method.
3. Multithreading: Set up multithreading to be able to serve multiple requests in parallel. You can do this by creating one thread per connection, or by managing a pool of worker threads and a request queue.

To present your project, you should have multiple client threads requesting for a HTML file, and show that client threads received the file (storing the received file locally and printing the content). Please send your files to SDI email mailto:sdi@os.rwth-aachen.de in a zip file.

Deadline: 10.11.2025 @ 23:59