A learning implementation of an HTTP/1.1 server built directly on Python sockets.

The server parses request lines and headers, validates the Host header and requested path, serves local resources, accepts JSON uploads, supports keep-alive connections, and bounds concurrency with a thread pool.

Request path

flowchart LR
  CLIENT["TCP client"] --> SOCKET["Listening socket"]
  SOCKET --> POOL["ThreadPoolExecutor"]
  POOL --> PARSE["HTTP parser"]
  PARSE --> VALIDATE["Host + path validation"]
  VALIDATE --> GET["Static GET"]
  VALIDATE --> POST["JSON POST"]
  GET --> RESPONSE["HTTP response"]
  POST --> DISK[("resources/uploads")]
  DISK --> RESPONSE

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Run

git clone https://github.com/ReaperXD67/NetworkingProject.git
cd NetworkingProject/Server\ Implemntation
python ../Server.py

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8080. Server.py serves a directory named resources, so run it from Server Implemntation unless you move that folder beside the script.

Example JSON upload:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8080 \
  -H "Host: 127.0.0.1:8080" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message":"hello from the socket client"}'

Implemented protocol behavior

• GET for HTML and selected binary resources.
• POST with application/json, persisted under resources/uploads.
• 400, 403, 404, 405, 415, and 500 responses.
• HTTP/1.1 keep-alive with a request cap and socket timeout.
• Path traversal checks and a localhost-only Host allowlist.
• Timestamped per-thread logs.

Learning scope

This is not a replacement for a hardened server such as Caddy, Nginx, or a production ASGI server. It does not implement TLS, chunked transfer encoding, streaming request bodies, complete MIME handling, or a standards-complete parser.