asmttpd

Web server for Linux written in amd64 assembly.

Note: This is very much a work in progress and not ready for production.

Features:

• Multi-threaded
• No libraries required ( only 64-bit Linux )
• Fast

What works:

• Serving files from specified document root.
• 200
• 206
• 404
• Content-types: xml, html, xhtml, gif, png, jpeg, css, js, and octet-stream.

Planned Features:

• Directory listing.
• HEAD support.

Current Limitations / Known Issues

• Implementation of proper HTTP error codes.

Installation

Run make or make release for non-debug version.

You will need yasm installed.

Usage

sudo ./asmttpd /path/to/web_root

Changes

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.