asmttpd
Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.
Features:
- Multi-threaded.
- No libraries required ( only 64-bit Linux ).
- Very small binary, roughly 6 KB.
- Quite fast.
What works:
- Serving files from specified document root.
- HEAD requests.
- 200, 206, 404, 400, 413, 416
- Content-types: xml, html, xhtml, gif, png, jpeg, css, js, svg, and octet-stream.
Planned Features:
- Directory listing.
Current Limitations / Known Issues
- Sendfile can hang if GET is cancelled.
Installation
Run make or make release for non-debug version.
You will need yasm installed.
Usage
./asmttpd /path/to/web_root port_number
Example: ./asmttpd ./web_root 8080
Changes
2019-04-22 : asmttpd - 0.4.4
- Added SVG support.
2019-01-24 : asmttpd - 0.4.3
- Added port number as parameter.
2017-10-18 : asmttpd - 0.4.2
- Set REUSEADDR.
2017-10-17 : asmttpd - 0.4.1
- Stack address bug fix.
2016-10-31 : asmttpd - 0.4
- HEAD support.
2014-07-14 : asmttpd - 0.3
- Added default document support.
2014-02-10 : asmttpd - 0.2
- Added 400, 413, 416 responses.
- Fixed header processing bug.
2014-02-07 : asmttpd - 0.1.1
- Fixed 206 max length bug.
- Commented out simple request logging, uncomment in main.asm to enable.
2014-02-06 : asmttpd - 0.1
- Fixed SIGPIPE when transfer is cancelled.
- Added a more useful error on bind failure.
- Fixed 206 size calculation.
- Combined seek & get file size system calls.
2014-02-05 : asmttpd - 0.09
- Issue #8 fix. Crashes on long request paths.
2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.08
- Added TCP corking.
2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.07
- Removed thread pool after benchmarking, changed to an accept-per-thread model.
2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.06
- Worker thread stack corruption bug fix.
2014-02-04 : asmttpd - 0.05
- Changed 200 and 206 implementation to use sendfile system call.
- Got rid of read/write buffer, changed request read buffer to standard 8KB.
2014-02-03 : asmttpd - 0.04
- 200 now streams full amount
2014-02-01 : asmttpd - 0.03
- Files are split if too large to fit into buffer.
- Added 206 responses with Content-Range handling
2014-01-30 : asmttpd - 0.02
- Added xml, xhtml, gif, png, jpeg, css, and javascript content types.
- Changed thread memory size to something reasonable. You can tweak it according to available memory. See comments in main.asm
- Added simple request logging.
- Added removal of '../' in URL.