PyHttp

PyHttp is an http server written from scratch in python to understand the http protocol .As of now what PyHttp does is:-

• Supports GET , HEAD , DELETE
• Supports status codes 200 , 400 , 501
• Capability of handling multiple conections
• Renders images and videos in the browser
• Allows you to set cookies
• Allows you to set caching

Getting Started

To compile and run the program, follow these steps:

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo.git
2. Run the httpproto file by running the following the command : python httpproto.py
3. For sending GET request,run 127.0.0.1:8080/hello.html
4. For sending HEAD request,use curl -I 127.0.0.1:8080/hello.html
5. For sending DELETE request,use curl -X "DELETE" '127.0.0.1:8080/hello.html'

System requirements

• python 3.6 or higher

Roadmap

• Adding the http access control
• Adding the http authentication
• Adding the http caching
• Adding the http cookies
• Last but not the least,if everything goes well, i also want to build a framework on top of it. Something similar to aiohttp

Contributing

• This project is under development.Feel free to contribute to it.