kestrel — Bare-bones HTTP server in Hare

A bare-bones HTTP server, written in Hare.

File serving should work now; but there are various issues with ev::http that causes segfaults when reverse proxying...

Inspired by kimchi.

Configuration

Configuration uses a simple text file:

listen :: 8080
vhost example.org fs /srv/http
vhost example.com proxy http://localhost:8080

Performance

This is presently about 10 times slower than the default Go HTTP server, and about 2 times faster than the default Python HTTP server.

Dependencies

• Hare
• hare-ev
• hare-http

Contributing

Create a branch that begins with contrib/ and push to the main repo via SSH directly.

git clone ssh://forge.lindenii.org/kestrel/:/repos/kestrel/
cd kestrel
git checkout -b contrib/whatever
# edit and commit stuff
git push -u origin HEAD

Bugs

• We use ascii::strlower to fold domain names, which is incorrect; Nameprep shall be used instead.
• We should probably validate the domain names anyway.
• Path traversal attacks used to be possible because os::dirfs_clone was broken. It was fixed in 37b7839b85.
• ev::http clients seem broken for large responses.

Support

#chat on irc.runxiyu.org.