go-http

This is a challenge which aims at implementing an HTTP server from scratch using Go.

Constraints

• Libraries that wrap around libc are permitted.
• No libraries that abstract away the internals of libc are allowed.
• Utilities library for compression, error handling, etc. are allowed.

Requirements

• Should be HTTP/1.1-compliant (P2)
• Able to handle multiple concurrent TCP connection. (P1)
• Should perform request assembly. (P1)
• Should be able to parse HTTP requests. (P1)
• Allow defining handlers for requests. (P1)
• Allow defining plugins to perform logging/monitoring. (P2)
• Can act as a static HTTP server as the fallback behavior. (P2)
• Allow server configuration. (P2)
• Perform response compression. (P3)

References

• HTTP/1.1 spec: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-3.3.3