Multithreaded HTTP Server
Build a multithreaded HTTP server from scratch in modern C++ using POSIX sockets and the standard library only. You accept connections, parse HTTP requests, serve static files, and dispatch work to a thread pool guarded by proper synchronisation. A serious exercise in networking and concurrency.
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What You'll Build
An HTTP/1.1 server that serves static files from a directory, handles many simultaneous clients through a worker thread pool, and returns correct status codes and headers.
Learning Objectives
- Accept TCP connections with the POSIX sockets API
- Parse HTTP request lines, headers, and methods
- Build a thread pool with std::thread and a task queue
- Synchronise the queue with std::mutex and std::condition_variable
- Serve static files safely with std::filesystem path checks
- Compose HTTP responses with correct status codes and headers
- Handle keep-alive, timeouts, and graceful shutdown
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