Simple HTTP Server

This should absolutely not be used in any environment anywhere! It's not at all secure, probably very unstable, and some of its logic is lacking in logic.

A simple multi-threaded HTTP server written in Rust purely as a learning exercise/experiment. It fully implements CRUD with files.

Based on the code from this tutorial: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch20-00-final-project-a-web-server.html

This implements:

• GET for displaying/downloading files
• POST for uploading files
• PATCH for modifying files
• DELETE for removing files

Usage

USAGE:
    main [OPTIONS] [directory]

ARGS:
    <directory>    [default: .]

FLAGS:
        --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -h, --host <host>    [default: 127.0.0.1]
    -p, --port <port>    [default: 7878]

POST

It is possible to POST a file directly as the request body...

curl --data-binary "@example.json" --header "Content-Type: text/plain" \
  --header "X-File-Name: example.json" http://localhost:7878/uploads/

...or one or more files using multipart/form-data

curl -F'file1=@test.txt' -F "file2=@test.png" -F "file3=@test2.txt" \ 
  http://localhost:7878/uploads/folder

In the first example, X-File-Name can be omitted to generate a random filename instead.

Overwriting existing files is disallowed, and directories are automatically created.

PATCH

PATCH can be used in the same manner as POST, except it will only overwrite existing files.

DELETE

Individual files can be deleted like so:

curl -X DELETE http://localhost:7878/uploads/folder1/test.png

Deleting directories is not permitted.

TODO

• HTTP Basic Auth
• HTTPS
• Refactor and tidy