A simple web server mainly based on ideas from Jasper Schuurmans Netduino web server

Dependents:   RdBlindsServer SpideyWallWeb RdGasUseMonitor

A fast and reliable web server for MBED! http://robdobson.com/2015/08/a-reliable-mbed-webserver/

It has a very neat way to implement REST commands and can serve files from local storage (on LPC1768 for instance) and from SD cards. It also has a caching facility which is particularly useful for serving files from local storage.

The server can be run in the main() thread (and has a sub-2ms response time if this is done) or in a mbed-rtos thread which increases the response time to (a still respectable) 30ms or so.

The latest project that uses this is here - https://developer.mbed.org/users/Bobty/code/SpideyWallWeb/

int main (void)
{
    // Ethernet interface
    EthernetInterface::init();

    // Connect ethernet
    EthernetInterface::connect();

    // Init the web server
    pc.printf("Starting web server\r\n");
    char* baseWebFolder = "/sd/";  // should be /sd/ for SDcard files - not used for local file system
    RdWebServer webServer;
    
    // Add commands to handle the home page and favicon
    webServer.addCommand("", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_LOCALFILE, NULL, "index.htm", true);
    webServer.addCommand("favicon.ico", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_LOCALFILE, NULL, NULL, true);
    
    // Add the lightwall control commands
    webServer.addCommand("name", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK, &lightwallGetSystemName);
    webServer.addCommand("clear", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK, &lightwallClear);
    webServer.addCommand("rawfill", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK, &lightwallRawFill);
    webServer.addCommand("fill", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK, &lightwallFill);
    webServer.addCommand("showleds", RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK, &lightwallShowLeds);
    
    // Start the server
    webServer.init(WEBPORT, &led4, baseWebFolder);
    webServer.run();

}

// Get system name - No arguments required
char* lightwallGetSystemName(int method, char*cmdStr, char* argStr, char* msgBuffer, int msgLen, 
                int contentLen, unsigned char* pPayload, int payloadLen, int splitPayloadPos)
{
    // Perform any required actions here ....

    // ...

    // Return the system name
    return systemName;
}

This server was originally based on a Netduino web server from Jasper Schuurmans but has been optimised for speed.

Revision:
8:de915bd70ec1
Parent:
7:fe7c33f7fbb8
Child:
9:35668248199b
--- a/RdWebServer.cpp	Sat Feb 07 10:34:09 2015 +0000
+++ b/RdWebServer.cpp	Fri Feb 20 08:53:08 2015 +0000
@@ -68,15 +68,15 @@
     char argStr[MAX_ARGSTR_LEN];
     if (extractCmdArgs(_buffer+3, cmdStr, MAX_CMDSTR_LEN, argStr, MAX_ARGSTR_LEN))
     {
-        pc.printf("CmdStr %s\n\r", cmdStr);
-        pc.printf("ArgStr %s\n\r", argStr);
+//        pc.printf("CmdStr %s\n\r", cmdStr);
+//        pc.printf("ArgStr %s\n\r", argStr);
         bool cmdFound = false;
         for (std::vector<RdWebServerCmdDef*>::iterator it = _commands.begin() ; it != _commands.end(); ++it)
         {
 //                            pc.printf("Testing <<%s>> with <<%s>>\r\n", (*it)->_pCmdStr, cmdStr);
             if (strcasecmp((*it)->_pCmdStr, cmdStr) == 0)
             {                                    
-                pc.printf("FoundCmd <%s> Type %d\n\r", cmdStr, (*it)->_cmdType);
+//                pc.printf("FoundCmd <%s> Type %d\n\r", cmdStr, (*it)->_cmdType);
                 cmdFound = true;
                 if ((*it)->_cmdType == RdWebServerCmdDef::CMD_CALLBACK)
                 {
@@ -108,10 +108,11 @@
 
 void RdWebServer::run()
 {
+    TCPSocketConnection client;
+    Timer connectLimitTimer;
 
-    while (1)
+    while (isListening())
     {
-        TCPSocketConnection client;
         pc.printf("Waiting for TCP connection\r\n");
         if(_socketSrv.accept(client)<0) 
         {
@@ -119,33 +120,55 @@
         }
         else
         {
+            client.set_blocking(false, 1000);
             pc.printf("Connection from IP: %s\n\r",client.get_address());
             if (_pStatusLed != NULL)
                 *_pStatusLed = true;
-                
-            // Get received data
-            int rxLen = client.receive(_buffer, HTTPD_MAX_REQ_LENGTH);
-            if (rxLen == -1)
+            
+            connectLimitTimer.reset();
+            connectLimitTimer.start();
+            while(true)
             {
-                continue;
-            }
-            else if (rxLen == 0)
-            {
-                pc.printf("received buffer is empty.\n\r");
-                continue;                
+                // Check connection timer - 10 seconds timeout on HTTP operation
+                if (connectLimitTimer.read() >= 10)
+                {
+                    pc.printf("Connection timed out\n\r");
+                    break;
+                }
+                // Get received data
+                int rxLen = client.receive(_buffer, HTTPD_MAX_REQ_LENGTH);
+                if (rxLen == -1)
+                {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                else if (rxLen == 0)
+                {
+                    pc.printf("received buffer is empty.\n\r");
+                    continue;                
+                }
+                else if (rxLen > HTTPD_MAX_REQ_LENGTH)
+                {
+                    sprintf(_httpHeader,"HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large \r\nContent-Type: text\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n");
+                    client.send(_httpHeader,strlen(_httpHeader));
+                    client.send(_buffer, rxLen);
+                    continue;
+                }
+                _buffer[rxLen] = '\0';
+    
+                // Handle buffer
+                handleReceivedHttp(client);
+                
+                // Done
+                break;
             }
-            else if (rxLen > HTTPD_MAX_REQ_LENGTH)
-            {
-                sprintf(_httpHeader,"HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large \r\nContent-Type: text\r\nConnection: Close\r\n\r\n");
-                client.send(_httpHeader,strlen(_httpHeader));
-                client.send(_buffer, rxLen);
-                continue;
-            }
-            _buffer[rxLen] = '\0';
-
-            // Handle buffer
-            handleReceivedHttp(client);
+            
+            // Connection now closed
+            printf("Connection closed ...\r\n");
+            client.close();
+            if (_pStatusLed != NULL)
+                *_pStatusLed = false;
         }
+        
     }
 }
 
@@ -159,12 +182,12 @@
     const int HTTPD_MAX_FNAME_LENGTH = 127;
     char filename[HTTPD_MAX_FNAME_LENGTH+1];
     
-    pc.printf("Requesting file %s\n\r", inFileName);
+//    pc.printf("Requesting file %s\n\r", inFileName);
     
     char *lstchr = strrchr(inFileName, NULL) -1;
     if ('/' == *lstchr)
     {
-        pc.printf("Request file %s%s\n", _pBaseWebFolder, inFileName);
+        pc.printf("Request directory %s%s\n", _pBaseWebFolder, inFileName);
         *lstchr = 0;
         sprintf(filename, "%s%s", _pBaseWebFolder, inFileName);
         DIR *d = opendir(filename);