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Top 18 C HTTP Server Projects

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  1. libhv

    🔥 比libevent/libuv/asio更易用的网络库。A c/c++ network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT client/server.

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  3. meinheld

    Meinheld is a high performance asynchronous WSGI Web Server (based on picoev)

  4. ucall

    Web Serving and Remote Procedure Calls at 50x lower latency and 70x higher bandwidth than FastAPI, implementing JSON-RPC & REST over io_uring ☎️

  5. facebooc

    Yet another Facebook clone written in C

  6. iwnet

    Pure C Asynchronous HTTP/IO framework with routing, websockets, SSL and reverse proxy.

  7. merecat

    Small and made-easy HTTP/HTTPS server based on Jef Poskanzer's thttpd

    Project mention: Merecat Httpd – A Tiny (~140 KiB) Web Server with HTTPS and PHP Support | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-13

  8. Igropyr

    a async http server base on libuv for Chez Scheme

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  10. squilu

    A scripting language that accepts a subset of javascript and C/C++

  11. lbbs

    Lightweight BBS For Linux - Bulletin Board System server software

  12. websockets

    A C websockets library (client and server) (by vrtql)

  13. phorklift

    Phorklift is an HTTP server and proxy daemon, with clear, powerful and dynamic configuration.

  14. sanic

    sanic - a simple http framework to go fast (by Azer0s)

  15. bittyhttp

    A threaded HTTP library for building REST services in C.

  16. Medge

    Medge is a web server with a lightweight expression language as its developing language.

  17. TinyCHttpServer

    Tiny Http Server in C for serving static files

    Project mention: TinyCHttpServer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-27

  18. ub-server

    HTTP 1.1 server with epoll and pthread, written in C

  19. tinypage

    A tiny single-page http server.

  20. httpserve

    Spin up a little http server from the commandline.

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source HTTP Server projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 libhv 7,162
2 meinheld 1,462
3 ucall 1,221
4 facebooc 565
5 iwnet 177
6 merecat 163
7 Igropyr 118
8 squilu 74
9 lbbs 50
10 websockets 49
11 phorklift 45
12 sanic 21
13 bittyhttp 16
14 Medge 3
15 TinyCHttpServer 2
16 ub-server 2
17 tinypage 2
18 httpserve 1

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