mini_express v0.1.2

////////////////////////Ex3 | Web-Server/part 1 | Shlomo Shenzis////////////////// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The hardest part in this exercise were: 1. Finding a way to parse the chunk in such a way that parsing the body according to content-length would be easy and simple as well as working in any situation. 2. The implementation of parsing requests chunked into several messages. 3. Implementing the parameterized routes (/public/:name/). 4. Finiding a model to convert http's req,res into express req,res.

The fun part: It was a very nice exercise and it was fun writing a WORKING http server on your own. Seeing the result, as my server (well...) served my ex2 website was really nice, but seeing it serving dynamic pages and storing data was amazing.

The optimization: In order to make the server efficient I made a few optimizations: 1)Small files are written to the socket directly (i.e. buffered fully from the system, WHEREAS, large files are read in const. chunks from the system and piped to the socket. This behaviour radically reduces the amount of memory the server needs to process a request, meaning the server can work under much higher load!

!!! - You can set the minimum file size for piping by changing MAX_FILE_BUFFER in settings.js - !!!!

2)the parser makes as little as possible passes over the message as a whole (i.e. no split of the whole message, but iteration over it. The server does I/O operations in an asynchronous manner to let the CPU parse the request non-stop.

3)The server is fully RESTful, by communicating solely by HTTP and not saving any information about the clients.

The "hacker" handles: In order to perform a DOS attack on the server by adding handles we could: 1. This function would be started for the directed request and will never end not letting other requests be spawned. app.use('/hello/hacker',function(req,res,next){ while(true){ console.log('Pwned!'); } }); 2. This function, will just terminate the connection to any client sending requests to the server. app.use('/hello/hacker',function(req,res,next){ res.shouldKeepAlive = false; res.end(); }); 3. Other methods could include massive reading/writing to/from filesystem (using fs module) finishing the physical memory of the machine or manipulating the filesystem (deleting important files of OS/Server).

To make my handles be executed I would put them first in the stack. This way no other
handler has the chance to manipulate the request before me and send()/json() ending the execution
of the stack.

////////////////////////////////////Use Instructions////////////////////////////////////////// Before running the server you can set preferences in settings.js file.

DIR_INDEX_NAME - lets you define the webserver directory index file. The default value is 'index.html'.

MAX_FILE_BUFFER - lets you set the minimum file size to force the webserver pipe data in chunks from the disk. (default is 5000 bytes)

Running example is given in tester.js ///////////////////////////////////////Notice///////////////////////////////////////////////// All node's HTTP Server - side API was implemented in the miniHttp module including inheritance properties. ////////////////////////////////////Files Included////////////////////////////////////////////

• root: miniExpress.js Request.js Response.js Route.js proto.js middleware.js settings.js load.js tester.js NoPartner.txt readme.txt doc.html -http: IncomingMessage.js ServerResponse.js parser.js miniHttp.js
• www: index.html jquery-1.10.2.min.map jquery-1.10.2.js index.js style.css calculator.js photo.jpg hapc.jpeg grampy.jpg prototype.js event-loop.txt features.txt read.txt //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////