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Asked: 2026-05-22T22:01:56+00:00

I recently wrote a small C code which uses sockets to listen on a

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I recently wrote a small C code which uses sockets to listen on a port. It simply echos back the request made to it by a browser. It creates a thread for daemon process and also for servicing new requests. I am doing it simply to learn more about webservers in general. I wanted to know what to do ahead?

I was planning to read the RFC for http. Many questions already answered on StackOverflow suggest going through open source webserver like apache or lighthttp, but I dont know how to start reading such open source projects?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is a really good book on HTTP. I recommend getting started with that then maybe the relevant RFC’s. Also maybe check out the source of libcurl, a c library for http, https, ftp etc. Hope this helps 🙂

    Also Tiny HTTPd is a small http server someone wrote for a school project, you can learn a lot from the source from that.
    This is simple http client in c.

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