Alyssa HTTP Server Project

Warning

Alyssa HTTP Server is still work in progress. Some bugs or unexpected behavior may happen.

Alyssa is a HTTP server project that aims to be as good as mainstream HTTP server implementation while maintaining a simple source tree. It can just work without hours of configuration, on anywhere.

How to use?

You can use it just out of the box! Just get the latest release, edit ports or other stuff if needed, and run the executable.

Documentation

Documentation about configuration, compiling and much more is available here.

Features

• HTTP/2
• SSL/TLS
• Redirection(soft and hard), authentication
• CGI applications
• IPv6 ready
• Directory index pages
• Name-based virtual hosts

And more.

To-do list (random order)

• Polling client sockets and handling requests in thread pool (HTTP/2 proxying may make this hard)
• Conditional requests handling (If-* headers)
• Server generated and custom error pages
• Compression encodings (gzip).
• Hashed authentication files support
• Add a tester application (WIP)
• Configurable build system with makefile
• Windows NT service support
• Content negotiation (Accept-* headers)
• HTTP/3 QUIC support
• Automatic CGI execution (i.e. for .php files)
• Gracefully shutting down (depends to client polling)
• Response caching
• Proxy server implementation
  • Forward Proxy
  • Reverse Proxy
• Switch to dual stack IPv6 sockets if possible (maybe)
• Guides for compilation, usage, configuration etc.
• Kernel mode acceleration
• Extend custom actions
• Implement FastCGI support
• Digest authentication
• Source code documentation (maybe)
• Modules/extensions support
• Make sure the server is really ready for production use.