HaskTTP-Server is a (hopefully) conditionally compliant HTTP/1.1 server for static content, similar in functionality to Python's http.server module. The program does not support the full HTTP/1.1 specification, handling only GET and POST requests.
attoparsec parser combinators are used for parsing incoming HTTP request headers. Receiving this data is handled using TCP socket connections from the network library.
This is a web server, designed to provide read access to any files in the current directory. While, to my knowledge, it will not provide access to other files, this is a personal project of someone learning Haskell! Trust this application at your own risk; I do not recommend running this as a public facing web server, especially as a long term solution on the standard port. There are plenty of better known alternatives if you need a simple HTTP server and far better options for hosting permanent websites.
HaskTTP-Server is built using the included socketeer library, which provides TCP servers for arbitrary "Handlers," ReaderT/WriterT monad transformer stacks over IO which "handle" an individual connection. Basic handlers for sending, receiving, logging, and parsing HTTP requests are provided. The TCP servers in socketeer also expect a "Logger," a function that formats and prints the log that is accumulated while running a handler. Loggers for writing to stdout and files are included, as well as generic Logger patterns to ease adding new Loggers for varied outputs.
HaskTTP-Server is a Cabal project. To build the project, simply run:
cabal buildin the base directory. For installation:
cabal installIf you would like to generate documentation for the associated socketeer library, the command:
cabal haddockwill generate the package's documentation as HTML. This documentation can, if desired, be served for viewing by the web server itself.