- Install Rustup
- Install the latest Rust + cargo (Rust's build tool):
rustup install stable - Run it:
cargo run
If you want to reload the server whenever the source code changes:
- Install [just] via some package manager
- Run
just install-tools
Then you can do just watch to run the server, and reload it whenever your source code changes.
- This is a request/response protocol.
- What is a HTTP request?
- Request first lines have the its HTTP "verb", request's path, and the HTTP version (1.1)
- After that, HTTP header
HTTP requests look something like this:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: google.com
User-Agent: curl/8.6.0
Accept: */*
<body></body>
HTTP responses look something like:
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.google.com/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
- Accept HTTP requests
- Always respond with a string, "Hello World"