README.md

Multi-Threaded File based HTTP Server

Dependencies:

• JDK 8
• Maven 3.3 or above

Building:

mvn clean package

Usage:

The jar file produced after building, is an executable one and can be simply run on the command line by java -jar {{path_to_jar}}.

The server provides the following options:

1. Port -p: An appropriate port number to listen to incoming connections.
2. Local Bind Address -b: A local address to bind to.
3. Root Directory -r: The root of the directory to serve. (Note: ~/ does not work)
4. Thread Count -t: The number of threads to use to handle concurrent requests.

Sample Usage:

1. cd {{project_root}}
2. java -jar target\httpserver-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar -t 4 -p 7999 -b localhost -r C:/Users/themanikjindal/Desktop/

References:

1. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/23/java_webserver.html