A tiny, DI-less HTTP server library for C#.

Introduction

This is a project for learning and experimenting with building an HTTP server using TCP sockets in c#. It aims to provide a simple interface for handling HTTP. Implements a subset of HTTP/1.1 features.

Goals

• Simple
• Fast
• Explicit

Spec supported

See HTTP Specification for Nila for details.

Usage (Planned)

var server = new NilaServer();
server.ProcessAsync(async (ctx, ct) =>
{
    Console.WriteLine($"{ctx.Request.Method} {ctx.Request.Path}");

    ctx.Response.StatusCode = 200;
    ctx.Response.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/plain";

    // Echo request body
    await foreach (var chunk in ctx.Request.ReadChunksAsync(ct))
    {
        await ctx.Response.WriteAsync(chunk, ct);
    }
});

server.Start(new ServerOptions
{
    Port = 8080
});

Development plan

• Test driven development
• Define spec and then implement features to meet the spec