README

Brief

A simple HTTP/2 cleartext server made with C++. The purpose of this project is to help myself learn more about the web, its HTTP protocol, and review C++. I do not intend this to be production ready at all and this will take some time to get working.

WIP Screenshots

Notes

• Only works on Unix-y systems because of the GNU Makefile.
• Create the bin and build folder at the project root for the build to work.
• Files in mains with names such as test_* are the unit tests.

Todos

1. Make special collections: BitArray, Prefix BT
2. HPACK Huffman encoder & decoder.
3. HPACK header indexing table (static, dynamic).
4. HPACK string and integer encoder & decoder.
5. Make HPACK context class.
   • Make unit tests with mock headers. See RFC 7541 5.2 for how the Huffman flag is put by the string length.
6. Make HTTP/2 streams and other utils.

• Make Http2Stream.
• Consider stream priority tree and algorithm...
• Make HTTP/2 FrameScanner and FrameWriter.
• Make Http2Connection.

7. Create server workers.
8. Create server driver.
9. Put together thread pool implementation.
10. Finish up driver class of server.
11. Test with cURL.

Other Notes:

• Probably install and use the s2n SSL library because openssl is verbose.