Multi Threaded Web Server

The server is an implementation to handle multiple clients simultaneously and efficiently. It implements the following components:

1. Multi Threaded queue for storing the client requests
2. Multi Threaded cache for quick response to similar requests
3. Various types of scheduling for incoming requests.

• Shortest job first (SJF)
• First come first serve (FCFS)
• Round robin (RR)
• Multi Level queue with feedback(priority wise) (MLFB)

Pre requisites to run

Any basic c compiler. GCC is preferred.

How to run

The makefile has all the required commands. Run the following command in the directory.

• make all

The above command will compile the whole program.

To run it just type : either

• ./sws

will start the server with default values. or

• ./sws 8080 MLFB 64 9999999

8080 -> port to run the server on. It's the default too.

MLFB -> type of scheduler, in this case it's Multi Level queue with feedback. Chose any from above. Their short forms are written after them.

64 -> No of threads to be handled simultaneously

9999999 -> size of cache in bytes.

Format of the request to the server

The request is in the format:

• GET /filename HTTP/1.1

For example:

• GET /abc.txt HTTP/1.1

Testing the server

You could simply use telnet to do the job. Here are the screenshots for both telnet and server session.