The Rust Programming Language (Covers Rust 2018)

20FINAL PROJECT: BUILDING A MULTITHREADED WEB SERVER

It’s been a long journey, but we’ve reached the end of the book. In this chapter, we’ll build one more project together to demonstrate some of the concepts we covered in the final chapters, as well as recap some earlier lessons.

For our final project, we’ll make a web server that says “Hello!” and looks like Figure 20-1 in a web browser.

Figure 20-1: Our final shared project

Here is the plan to build the web server:

1. Learn a bit about TCP and HTTP.
2. Listen for TCP connections on a socket.
3. Parse ...