🌐 Multithreaded HTTP Server

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A low-level C++ web server built from scratch using POSIX sockets and pthreads.

🔧 Tech Stack

  • C++
  • POSIX Sockets (<sys/socket.h>, <arpa/inet.h>)
  • pthreads

⚙️ Features

  • Handles multiple simultaneous connections via threading
  • Serves static files (HTML, CSS, etc.)
  • Implements a basic HTTP 1.0 protocol
  • Graceful shutdown and error handling

🚀 Architecture Overview

  • One listener thread for incoming connections
  • Request-handling worker threads for each connection
  • Static content served from /public folder HTTP Server picture HTTP Server picture