ant-http

A lightweight and portable HTTP/HTTPs web server written in C:

• New 1.0.0 version (BETA feature): Nonblocking event driven base server with configurable number of thread pool workers, good for scalability
• Initial goal is for embedded Linux, but can be used as general purpose web server.
• Support SSL via open SSL, database via Sqlite 3, web socket integrated
• It is also extensible via its extension mechanism that allows to extends the server capability.
• Grade A SSL security score by SSL Labs

Plugins:

• CGI interface for external scripting language (e.g. PHP): https://github.com/lxsang/antd-cgi-plugin
• Lua extension https://github.com/lxsang/antd-lua-plugin: using Lua as serverside script
• PHP extension https://github.com/lxsang/antd-ph7-plugin: using PHP as serverside script
• Web terminal https://github.com/lxsang/antd-wterm-plugin: plugin for using Unix terminal from the web via websocket
• Web VNC https://github.com/lxsang/antd-wvnc-plugin: Remote computer access using VNC protocol on the web (via websocket)

Build from source

build dep

• git
• make
• build-essential

server dependencies

• libssl-dev (expecting openssl v1.1.1d, only support TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3)
• libsqlite3-dev

build

When all dependencies are installed, the build can be done with a few single command lines:

mkdir antd
cd antd
# Replace x.x.x by the version number
# build without plugin
wget -O- https://get.bitdojo.dev/antd | bash -s "x.x.x"

# or from the distribution tarball
tar xvzf antd-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd antd-x.x.x
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug=yes
make
sudo make install

The script will ask for a place to put the binaries (should be an absolute path, otherwise the build will fail) and the default HTTP port for the server config.

Generate distribution

libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
make distcheck

To do

• variable size dictionary
• refactoring libantd API, remove unused functions
• remove static strings, replace it by configurations