Multithreaded Web Server Made with Rust

The server listens for TCP connections at address 127.0.0.1:7878. Several pages can be accessed:

• 127.0.0.1:7878 - Default page, simple HTML.
• 127.0.0.1:7878/sleep - Server responds with a 5 second delay. This is made for testing its multithreaded aspect.
• 127.0.0.1:7878/shutdown - Asks for the password, and if it's correctly provided, shuts the server down. The password is rust7878.
• 127.0.0.1:7878/[non-existent link] - Gives us the "404 Not Found" page.

How to Run

To run this project, you must have cargo installed. Open the base directory and run the following command:

cargo run

The server can be shut down either by pressing Ctrl + C in the terminal or visiting the shutdown page and providing the correct password.

Implementation Details

This project is partially based on the final project from The Rust Programming Language book.

Multithreading is done with thread pool. The code is split in two files: main.rs and lib.rs. The name of the crate is hello_web.

• lib.rs contains the implementation of the public ThreadPool struct, which manages the worker threads, defined by the Worker struct.
• main.rs contains the code responsible for getting HTTP requests and sending appropriate responses with the handle_connection function.

Each worker thread receives the handle_connection function as well as the callback function that should be called for shutting down the server. Each job (or task) given to the worker threads returns the ThreadPoolStatus enum which tells them whether the server needs to be shut down after completing the job.