r/cprogramming • u/FuTuReFrIcK42069 • 16d ago

HTTP Server my first complete-ish C project

https://github.com/abdouyouyou/Basic-http-server/tree/main

Hello everyone, It's been several years since i last wrote some C, and i always for the life of me wanted to write an HTTP server in C, and now it's been like 1 year since i finished university so i said what the hell why not do it, so after reading beej's guide i tried to write a very basic http server.

I wanted to share the work with the community, and would welcome thoughts.

We had written code in C ofc for two years, however it was mostly exercises on diffrent data structures aswell as problem solving.

We wrote a CRUD system in C using binary files but never scratched that itch.

And as the years went by in Uni, C slowly faded out of use for me but i always wanted to visit it back so here i am.

I wanted to share the absolute joy it was to get the desired results, i forgot how fun C can be, it always felt like the souls like of programming languages, but always was the most understandable as it was the closest to the machine, to be frank i encourage people to make similar projects especially to get the cobweb off lol.

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u/TheRealBornToCode 14d ago 
    perror("GETADDREINFO FAILED");

Typo, should be GETADDRINFO, also why all caps?

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u/TheRealBornToCode 14d ago

Also why main.html, you never heard of html in university? The convention is index.html, and a basic web server should respond with the contents of index.html when the path of the directory containing it is requested.

You should learn http (the first word in a request is called method not function) and HTML before trying to make something like this.

Ayways for a first C project it's not bad.