A minimal Http Server in Java

Recently, I wrote an spike, implementing a minimal Http Server in Java. It’s naive, and it don’t implement all the protocol: only the minimal GET.

The code:

package com.ajlopez;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class HttpServer {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
	int port;
	ServerSocket serversocket;
		
	port = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
	String rootpath = args[1];
		
	try {
		serversocket = new ServerSocket(port);
	} catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		return;
	}
		
	while (true) {
	    try {
		Socket socket = serversocket.accept();
		BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                          new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
		String line = reader.readLine();
		String [] words = line.split(" ");
		System.out.println(line);
		InputStream stream = new FileInputStream(rootpath + words[1]);
		OutputStream output = socket.getOutputStream();
		byte [] buffer = new byte[4096];
		int nbytes;
			
		while ((nbytes = stream.read(buffer))!=-1)
		    output.write(buffer,0,nbytes);
		
		output.close();
		stream.close();
		socket.close();
	    } catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
	    }
	}
    }
}

It receives two arguments: the port and the root directory. You can try
java com.ajlopez.HttpServer 10000 c:\apache-tomcat-6.0.18\webapps\docs
and enter
http://localhost:10000/index.html
(don’t forget the index.html) and you get:
 
It’s toy code, but it works  
You can get it from pastie:
http://pastie.org/1305444
or download from my AjCodeKatas google code:
http://code.google.com/p/ajcodekatas/source/browse/#svn/trunk/Spikes/MinimalHttpServer
I could improve it: separate concerns, add multithreading, etc.
Keep tuned!
Angel “Java” Lopez

  
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