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# cHTTP
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This is an HTTP client and server library for C.
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# Use Cases
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cHTTP is perfect for tooling or production environments of limited scale (up to about 1000 concurrent connections). To scale it further, users can take cHTTP's I/O independant HTTP state machine and use it in conjunction with more scalable I/O solutions (see examples/engine).
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## Why another HTTP library?
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This is my attempt at solving the "HTTP problem" for the C language. Writing C programs that behave as or interact with web services is always more painful than necessary in C. You either need to use `libcurl` which is overkill in most situations or link a large scale web servers to serve simple pages. This library targets smaller scale use-cases and tries to be as nice as possible to work with. Even then, it is fast. No performance is left on the table unless there is a specific reason. And if you do want to work at larger scales by using more sophisticate I/O systems (io_uring, I/O completion ports, etc) you can reuse the core state machine of the library that is I/O independant.
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## Features & Limitations
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* HTTP/1.1 server & client
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* Cross-platform (Windows & Linux)
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* TLS (HTTPS) support using OpenSSL
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* Minimal dependencies (libc and OpenSSL)
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* Non-blocking design based on `poll()`
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* I/O independant core reusable with more sophisticated I/O models
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* Virtual hosts
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* Single-threaded
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