Rob Dobson / RdWebServer

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.

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API Documentation at this revision

Revision 20:e6c7db867593, committed 2015-08-14

Comitter:
Bobty
Date:
Fri Aug 14 11:52:16 2015 +0000
Parent:
19:f67ac231b570
Child:
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--- a/RdWebServer.cpp	Tue May 12 22:16:25 2015 +0000
+++ b/RdWebServer.cpp	Fri Aug 14 11:52:16 2015 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-/* RdWebServer.cpp
-   Rob Dobson 2013-2015
-   Inspired by Jasper Schuurmans multi-threaded web server for Netduino http://www.schuurmans.cc/multi-threaded-web-server-for-netduino-plus
-   More details at http://robdobson.com/2013/10/moving-my-window-shades-control-to-mbed/
-*/
+// RdWebServer - Simple Web Server for MBED
+// Copyright (C) Rob Dobson 2013-2015, MIT License
+// Inspired by Jasper Schuurmans multi-threaded web server for Netduino which now seems to have gone from ...
+// http://www.schuurmans.cc/multi-threaded-web-server-for-netduino-plus
+// More details at http://robdobson.com/2013/10/moving-my-window-shades-control-to-mbed/
 
 // Setting RDWEB_DEBUG to 4 causes all debugging to be shown
 #define RDWEB_DEBUG 4

--- a/RdWebServer.h	Tue May 12 22:16:25 2015 +0000
+++ b/RdWebServer.h	Fri Aug 14 11:52:16 2015 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-/* RdWebServer.h
-   Rob Dobson 2013-2015
-   Inspired by Jasper Schuurmans multi-threaded web server for Netduino http://www.schuurmans.cc/multi-threaded-web-server-for-netduino-plus
-*/
+// RdWebServer - Simple Web Server for MBED
+// Copyright (C) Rob Dobson 2013-2015, MIT License
+// Inspired by Jasper Schuurmans multi-threaded web server for Netduino which now seems to have gone from ...
+// http://www.schuurmans.cc/multi-threaded-web-server-for-netduino-plus
+// More details at http://robdobson.com/2013/10/moving-my-window-shades-control-to-mbed/
+
 #ifndef RD_WEB_SERVER
 #define RD_WEB_SERVER