I am creating a custom web server for the darkweb.

submitted by humancorpse from (self.whatever)

I am creating a custom webserver that will be used to host a website on the darkweb network.

screen shot: https://files.catbox.moe/71kbha.png

I am using the shell version of the GCC compiler that runs on windows 10 to develop this custom webserver program.

The GCC C compiler is from the FREE codeblocks C/C++ package.

http://codeblocks.org

I will have complete control over how my page requests are processed.. With the "off the shelf" publicly available web server programs, it is difficult to understand the zillions of configuration options, and so it is easy to leave something configured incorrectly.

With most web servers, if the webmaster fks up and leaves a subdirectory open and world readable, then an intruder can view whatever files are in that subdirectory.. I dont even want that option to be available with my custom web server.

Also, by developing my own web server I can include all functionality directly inside of my "web server" program.. ie, when someone submits a "GET / HTTP/1.1" request I can just call a function to generate that webpage... there is no need to have a separate index.html or index.htm or index.cgi file..

With most web servers, the web server receives a page request and then displays the requested page(index.htm, etc) but i want to be very specific about which pages are allowed and ONLY THOSE CAN EVER BE REQUESTED AND NO OTHERS.

If i should want to have a few specific webpages to be read from a disk file, then i can hard code the necessary instructions to accomplish this.

I am also able to write custom code that can respond to "denial of service" and other such attacks, and they will be dealt with exactly as i want them dealt with.. Logging these attacks will be custom according to my specifications and also optionally i can immediately send automated alerts that an attack is in progress, such as i could send a text alert upon receiving suspicious page requests or i could play an audio file that says "attack alert", letting me know to check my log files.

i neither want nor need cloudflare controlling access to my site.

happy coding.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5k56GIXSo

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[–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Three letter agencies will be watching your ass day and night.

[–]humancorpse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I sincerely hope so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTXYjkbLMjA

[–]humancorpse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

most web servers, upon receiving an incoming socket connection and after having accepted it, most programs will perform a "fork" which will create a separate thread that will process that page and then the primary program will resume waiting for and accepting new http connection requests..

instead of my program "forking" to create threads to receive an incoming http request headers and then responding by sending back a response that consists of html and javascript, nope, i dont wanna use threads.. i will have my software operate as a "state machine", whereby i will cycle thru all actively being processed pages AND wait for and accept new connections.

obviously my program will be operating in a "non-blocking" mode.

pseudo code:

for(socket=0;socket<MAXSOCKETS;socket++)
{
wait_for_incoming_request();

read_incoming_header();

generate_dynamic_page();
}//for loop

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This makes no sense. Threads are better.

[–]humancorpse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

i understand that you like the threads method of doing things...

but it is just my preference to use what i call a "state machine", which means that i have one program loop that does a little of this and then a little of that and then repeat..

i dont know how old you are, but i am 58 and i have been coding since 1983 and i am simply set in my ways.

i like the state machine method.

btw, i spent about six months experimenting with java and it is a very nice language but i dont think that it produces as fast and tight of code as does C.

:)

[–]thefirststone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's just called asyncronous event handling. It can scale very well. Not all servers are multithreaded, especially on platforms or runtimes where threads have large overhead.

[–]humancorpse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yeah, i like the state machine..

[–]fschmidt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I already did this in my goodjava.webserver.

[–]humancorpse[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

should you ever like to look into writing sockets code in C, you should check out beej's sockets stuff..

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/

his guide is primarily focused on writing sockets code on a linux box.