QuickHTTPD is a piece of middleware. It is Open Source, backed by a DTD-based XML configuration structure and has been developed with efficiency and flexibility in mind. It is a pure Java application with no external dependencies and can be run on any platform that provides a 1.4 JVM (for a C# .NET 2.0 implementation of this technology, see the LPC).
It is an open mechanism that can be easily adapted to service requests from a variety of services, to send appropriate loosely-tied responses from customisable document sources and to perform arbitrary processing based on the requests. In this regard "QuickHTTPD" is a misnomer.
Out of the box, the QuickHTTPD can be used to provide:
QuickHTTPD is only a framework, and as a consequence when customized it probably won't be as agile as a dedicated purpose-built component. It may only be of value to your organisation for prototyping.
It is used successfully by Lothian Productions to form the backbone of a caching system.
The provided API defines interfaces for RequestListeners, RequestHandlers and DocumentSources. A RequestListener listens for an incoming request (usually on a given port) and passes on any request it gets to a RequestHandler. The handler interprets the request, converting it into a document request. The document request is then sent to a DocumentSource which returns a document to be streamed back to the requestor.
The simplest implementation works as follows:
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ServetSocketRequestListener |
(listens on a port specified in the XML configuration for incoming requests) |
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HTTPRequestHandler |
(interprets the request data as an HTTP request) |
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FilesystemDocumentSource |
(serves the requested document from the server's file system, as specified by the XML configuration) |
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It is only partially complete, although it's fully functional for the purposes described above. A number of incomplete refactorings are marked with FIXME comments in the code.
Goals include:
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