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Emu Web Server

Targets ISE Eiffel 4.2 under Red Hat Linux 5.1.
Version 0.1 — 13 November 1998.
Eiffel Forum Freeware License.

socket.tar.gz (26,430 bytes) — source code
http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/emu/ (Emu home page)
http://www.netlabs.net/~richieb/ (Richie Bielak's home page)

What is it?

Emu stands for Eiffel Micro Web Server (think of "micro" represented by the Greek letter "mu" to get E-mu). Emu is a simple Web server written in Eiffel.

I wanted to try writing some Web Apps in Eiffel and I thought it would be nice to have an Eiffel Web server. I also wanted to learn more about http protocol. But once I thought of the name I liked the name so much that I had to write the code!

There are actually two parts to this package:

A socket library - with examples
The Emu Web server

All the code in released under the Eiffel Forum license. Which basically says that you can use this code for any purpose, just send back any changes and improvements to of the library back to the Eiffel Forum (and the author). See the Eiffel Forum page for more details.

I'm using ISE's Eiffel 4.2, Red Hat Linux 5.1.

As always, comments, suggestions, and more code are welcome.

Downloads

Download the library here: socket.tar.gz.

To compile Emu you will also need the Gobo Eiffel Library (version 1.3), which you can get from Eiffel-Forum.

Status

11/13/98 - first release. Emu server can serve text/html files and jpeg and gif image files. Only the GET http method is implemented.

TO DO

Here is a short list of things I'm planning to do next:

Add handling of Forms and add hooks for writing custom form handlers.
Implement other parts of http protocol.
Improve concurrency in SELECT_SET by waiting for read and write completions.
Server-side filters.

Emu Web Server

What is it?

Downloads

Status

TO DO

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