In this homework, we’ll look at the HTTP protocol as a Web server. After creating your personal repository, you will find that the hw5 directory contains:
homework5.c: Skeleton code for the server side of a TCP application. This will be the primary file for this assignment, but feel free to modularize and create other files if you prefer to do so.
WWW/: A directory containing example files for your Web server to distribute.
thread_example.c: Example code that illustrates a very simple threaded programming scenario. You are not required to use or make any changes to this file, but you should understand what it does.
A Makefile. If you modularize your code into different files, make sure those changes are reflected in the Makefile (and don’t forget to git add those files to your personal git repo!).
Your server program will receive two arguments: 1) the port number it should listen on for incoming connections, and 2) the directory out of which it will serve files (often called the document root in production Web servers) For example:
https://sites.google.com/uic.edu/cs361summer2020/homeworks/hw5?authuser=1
document root in production Web servers). For example:
This command will tell your Web server to listen for connections on port 8080 and serve files out of the WWW directory. That is, the WWW directory is considered ‘/’ when responding to requests. For example, if you’re asked for /index.html, you should respond with the file that resides in WWW/index.html. If you’re asked for /dir1/dir2/file.ext, you should respond with the file WWW/dir1/dir2/file.ext.
