Single instance HTTP Server using new Ethernet Interface.

Dependents:   EthHTTPServer if201410_section5 _PE2E_12-04_EthernetInterfaceServer MGAS_GR_Peach ... more

Fork of WiFlyHTTPServer by Henry Leinen

Desciprtion of the library

Overview

This is an HTTPServer library using the new MBED EthernetInterface library. It allows you to :

  • serve files from any file System
  • use Remote procedure calls
  • extend the HTTPServer functionality according to your needs, using the provided handler classes or writing new classes. The following sections will give you a brief overview of how to use the library.

Usage description

You can use the library as file server, as RPC server or a combination of both. You can even define your own behaviour by deriving from one of the classes provided.

Use as file server

You may want to look at my sample application which allows you to serve files from the internal local storage of the mbed with no modifcation of the code :

Very simple example application

#include "mbed.h"
#include "HTTPServer.h"
#include "FsHandler.h"
#include "LocalFileSystem.h"

//  Use LED1 to indicate that the main loop is still executing
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
//  Use the serial connection 'pc' to dump debug information
Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX, "pc");
//  Instantiate a HTTPServer to handle incoming requests
HTTPServer  svr;
//  Instantiate a local file system handler named 'local' which will be used later to access files on the mbed.
LocalFileSystem local("local");


int main() {

    pc.baud(460800);
    HTTPFsRequestHandler::mount("/local/", "/");
    svr.addHandler<HTTPFsRequestHandler>("/");

    if (!svr.start()) {
       error("Server not starting !");
        exit(0);
    }
    
    while(1) {
        svr.poll();
        myled = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        myled = 0;
        wait(0.2);
    }
}

Another alternative is to provide the EthernetInterface library to the HTTPServer library. This may be useful in case you need to perform other tasks with your internet connection. In this case it is necessary that you initialize the EthernetInterface and perform the connection prior to calling the start() method. Here is the example :

Sample application with re-use of existing EthernetInterface object

#include "mbed.h"
#include "HTTPServer.h"
#include "FsHandler.h"
#include "LocalFileSystem.h"
#include "EthernetInterface.h"


//  Use LED1 to indicate that the main loop is still executing
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
//  Use the serial connection 'pc' to dump debug information
Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX, "pc");
//  Instantiate a HTTPServer to handle incoming requests
HTTPServer  svr;
//  Instantiate a local file system handler named 'local' which will be used later to access files on the mbed.
LocalFileSystem local("local");
//  Create the EthernetInterface. This is optional, please see the documentation of HTTP Server's start method.
EthernetInterface eth;


int main() {

    pc.baud(460800);
    HTTPFsRequestHandler::mount("/local/", "/");
    svr.addHandler<HTTPFsRequestHandler>("/");

    //  Initialize the EthernetInterface and initiate a connection using DHCP.
    eth.init();
    eth.connect();

    // ***
    // TODO: Perform other Tasks using the ethernet connection here.
    // ****
    
    // Now start the server on port 80.
    if (!svr.start(80, &eth)) {
        error("Server not starting !");
        exit(0);
    }
    
    // The whole server activity is performed in this Loop. You can also put it into a separate RTOS Task and let it run there all the time.
    while(1) {
        svr.poll();
        myled = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        myled = 0;
        wait(0.2);
    }
}

Use as remote procedure call (RPC) server

To access objects or resources via HTTP you can make use of the RPC functionality. Each object that shall be accessible via HTTP needs to be registered before use. Here is an example which Registers the DigitalOut class for use over RPC :

RPC usage over HTTPServer

#include "mbed.h"
#include "HTTPServer.h"
#include "RpcHandler.h"
#include "mbed_rpc.h"

//  Use LED1 to indicate that the main loop is still executing
DigitalOut myled(LED1);
//  Use the serial connection 'pc' to dump debug information
Serial pc(USBTX, USBRX, "pc");
//  Instantiate a HTTPServer to handle incoming requests
HTTPServer  svr;


int main() {

    pc.baud(460800);
    RPC::add_rpc_class<RpcDigitalOut>();
    svr.addHandler<HTTPRpcRequestHandler>("/RPC");
    
    if (!svr.start()) {
        error("Server not starting !");
        exit(0);
    }
    
    while(1) {
        svr.poll();
        myled = 1;
        wait(0.2);
        myled = 0;
        wait(0.2);
    }
}

And using the above code, enter the following in the address field of your browser :

http://<your_mbed_ip>/RPC/DigitalOut/new LED4 myled4 - - > to create a new object of type DigitalOut on pin LED4 which can be referred to as 'myled4'.

and

http://<your_mbed_ip>/RPC/myled4/write 1 - - > to switch on the LED4.

Of course it is possible to Register your own objects with the standard MBED RPC functionality.

All the above Scenarios are implemented in a sample application, which will allow you to try out the functionality with basically no changes. If you want to try out the HTTP file Server, it is of course helpful to upload an html file to your MBED local storage.

Here is the sample application :

Import programEthHTTPServer

Working sample implementation for the EthernetInterface HTTPServer.

Future plans

Currently I am not considering to further extend this library. However, if someone needs extensions to this library, I will consider implementing them. Of course I will be taking care of bugfixes.

Known issues

Please note that the current implementation of the EthernetInterface seems to have an issue which results in unresponsive behaviour of the Sockets in some situations. This odd behaviour has not only been reported on my HTTPServer but also on other components using the EthernetInterface library.

Files at this revision

API Documentation at this revision

Comitter:
leihen
Date:
Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
Parent:
3:d6224049b3bf
Child:
5:dc88012caef1
Commit message:
Added parameter parsing from uri in http webrequest.
; Documentation updated.

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--- a/HTTPConnection.cpp	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPConnection.cpp	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@
 
 
 
+const struct HTTPRequestConfig {
+    const char* request_string;
+    HTTPRequestType request_type;
+} g_requestConfig[] = {
+    { "GET",    HTTP_RT_GET },
+    { "POST",   HTTP_RT_POST},
+    { "PUT",    HTTP_RT_PUT},
+    { "OPTIONS",HTTP_RT_OPTIONS},
+    { "HEAD",   HTTP_RT_HEAD},
+    { "DELETE", HTTP_RT_DELETE},
+    { "TRACE",  HTTP_RT_TRACE},
+    { "CONNECT",HTTP_RT_CONNECT}
+};
+
 
 HTTPConnection::HTTPConnection()
 {
@@ -136,14 +150,16 @@
 
 int HTTPConnection::parse(char* buffer)
 {
+    //  Check if buffer is invalid or its content not long enough.
     if ((buffer == NULL) || (strlen(buffer) < 4)) {
         ERR("Buffer content is invalid or too short.");
         return -1;
     }
     
-    vector<std::string> args;
+    std::vector<std::string> args;
     args.clear();
     
+    int argno = 0;
     //  decompose string into a list of arguments
     char s = 0; // current starting char
     int nLen = strlen(buffer)+1;
@@ -151,25 +167,25 @@
         if ((buffer[i] == ' ') || (buffer[i] == '\n') || (buffer[i] == 0)) {
             // new arg found
             buffer[i] = 0;
+            if (argno++ == 1) {
+                //  its the uri
+                // parse the uri args
+                parseUriArgs(&buffer[s], m_Msg.args);
+            }
             INFO("Found argument \"%s\"", &buffer[s]);
             args.push_back(&buffer[s]);
             s = i+1;
         }
     }
-        
-    if (args.at(0) == "GET") {
-        m_Msg.request = HTTP_RT_GET;
-        m_Msg.uri = args[1];
-        m_Msg.version = args[2];    
-    }
-    else {
-        if (args.at(0) == "POST") {
-            m_Msg.request = HTTP_RT_GET;
-            m_Msg.uri = args[1];
-            m_Msg.version = args[2];    
-        }
-        else {
-            INFO("unhandled message.");
+    
+    // store the uri and the HTTP version
+    m_Msg.uri = args[1];
+    m_Msg.version = args[2];    
+    
+    //  Find matching request type
+    for (int i = 0 ; i < sizeof(g_requestConfig)/sizeof(struct HTTPRequestConfig) ; i++) {
+        if (args.at(0) == g_requestConfig[i].request_string) {
+            m_Msg.request = g_requestConfig[i].request_type;
         }
     }
     args.clear();
@@ -180,6 +196,7 @@
 
 int HTTPConnection::parseHeader(char *buffer)
 {
+    //  Check if the buffer is invalid or if the content is too short to be meaningful
     if ((strlen(buffer) <3) || (buffer == NULL))
         return -1;
         
@@ -201,3 +218,49 @@
     ERR("Did not recieve a valid header : \"%s\".", buffer);
     return -1;
 }
+
+int HTTPConnection::parseUriArgs(char *buffer, map<string,string>&args)
+{
+    // Check if the buffer is invalid or if the content is too short to be meaningful
+    if ((strlen(buffer) <3) || (buffer == NULL))
+        return -1;
+        
+    int args_start = -1;
+    int value_start = -1;
+    int buflen = strlen(buffer) +1;
+    const char* argname = NULL;
+    const char* valuename = NULL;
+    for (int i = 0; i < buflen ; i++) {
+        if (args_start == -1) {  // args section not yet found
+            if (buffer[i] == '?') {  // starts with a question mark, so got it
+                buffer[i] = 0;
+                args_start = i; //  set the start of the args section
+                INFO("Argument section found !");
+            }
+        }
+        else {                  // search arg-value touples
+            if (argname == NULL) {    //  arg-name found ?
+                if (buffer[i] == '=') {
+                    //  yes, separate the arg-name
+                    buffer[i] = 0;
+                    argname = &buffer[args_start];
+                    value_start = i+1;
+                    INFO("Argument name %s", argname);
+                }
+            }
+            else { // search for end of value
+                if ((buffer[i] == '&') || (buffer[i] == 0) || (buffer[i] == '\r') || (buffer[i] == '\n')) {
+                    buffer[i] = 0;
+                    valuename = &buffer[value_start];
+                    INFO("Argument value %s", valuename);
+                    args[argname] = valuename;
+                    //  reset all indicators
+                    argname = NULL;
+                    valuename = NULL;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    return 0;
+}
--- a/HTTPConnection.h	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPConnection.h	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
     HTTP_RT_CONNECT     /*!< CONNECT request */
 } HTTPRequestType;
 
-
 /** class HTTPConnection, encapsulates one connection being made throught the HTTPServer
  *
  */
@@ -58,17 +57,21 @@
         {
             /** Specifies the request type received
             */
-            HTTPRequestType             request;
+            HTTPRequestType                         request;
             /** The uri associated with the request.
             */
-            std::string                 uri;
+            std::string                             uri;
             /** Contains the HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/1.0 version requested by client.
             */
-            std::string                 version;
+            std::string                             version;
             /** Map of headers provided by the client in the form <HeaderName>:<HeaderValue>
             */
-            std::map<std::string, std::string>    headers;
+            std::map<std::string, std::string>      headers;
+            /** Map of arguments that came with the uri string
+            */
+            std::map<std::string, std::string>      args;
         } HTTPMessage;
+        
         /** Public constructor for HTTPConnection objects.
          *
          */
@@ -99,11 +102,37 @@
                         
         TCPSocketConnection m_Tcp;
         HTTPMessage m_Msg;
+
+        /** parse a HTTP request line from the content of the buffer. 
+        * @param buffer : the request received from the client in the form <RequestType> <uri> <Http Version>
+        * @returns -1 if the request is invalid or 0 if the request is valid
+        */
         int parse(char *buffer);
+        
+        /** parses the received string in \c buffer for HTTP request headers.
+        * @param buffer : buffer which contains the string to parse for headers.
+        * @returns -1 in case of an error, otherwise returns 0
+        */
         int parseHeader(char *buffer);
         int receiveHeaders(const char* buffer, int nBuffSize);
+        
+        /** Function which receives a line from the current Socket
+        * @param szline : will contain one line received from the socket
+        * @param nMaxLen : the size of the buffer. If the line is longer than the buffer the line is cropped at the end.
+        * @param nTimeout : if the timeout elapses, only the portion that has been received within this time will be returned.
+        * @param szLineTerm : the \c end-of-line character to be used to detect the end of the line.
+        * @returns -1 in case of an error or timeout, -2 in case of an empty line or the number of received characters.
+        */
         int receiveLine(char* szLine, int nMaxLen, int nTimeout = -1, char szLineTerm = '\n');
 
+    
+        /** parse the receoved \c uri_string for arguments which will be stored in the \c args map.
+        * @parse uri_string : the uri string which was received from the client.
+        * @parse args : the args map which will receive the argument:value touples from the \c uri_string.
+        * @returns -1 if an error occured, otherwise returns 0.
+        */
+        int parseUriArgs(char *uri_string, map<string,string>& args);
+
 };
 
 #endif // __HTTPConnection_H__
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/HTTPFsRequestHandler.cpp	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-/* HTTPFsRequestHandler.cpp */
-#include "mbed.h"
-#include "HTTPFsRequestHandler.h"
-
-
-
-#if (1 && !defined(TARGET_LPC11U24))
-#define INFO(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
-#define WARN(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
-#define ERR(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
-#else
-#define INFO(x, ...)
-#define WARN(x, ...)
-#define ERR(x, ...)
-#endif
-
-
-#define MAX_BUFFERSIZE  128
-static char buffer[MAX_BUFFERSIZE];
-
-
-std::map<const char*, const char*> HTTPFsRequestHandler::m_fsMap;
- 
-HTTPFsRequestHandler::HTTPFsRequestHandler(const char* rootPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& Msg, TCPSocketConnection& Tcp)
-    : HTTPRequestHandler(Msg, Tcp)
-{
-    m_rootPath = rootPath;
-    m_localPath = localPath;
-    
-    //  Now replace the virtual root path with a mounted device path
-    std::map<const char*, const char*>::iterator it;
-    for (it = m_fsMap.begin() ; it != m_fsMap.end() ; it++) {
-        //  find best match (if the given logical path is containted in the root
-        if (m_rootPath.find( it->second ) == 0) {
-            m_rootPath = it->first;
-            break;
-        }
-    }
-    
-    handleRequest();
-}
-
-HTTPFsRequestHandler::~HTTPFsRequestHandler()
-{
-}
-
-int HTTPFsRequestHandler::handleGetRequest()
-{
-    INFO("Handling Get Request.");
-    int retval = 200;   //success
-    std::string reqPath;
-
-    //  Check if we received a directory with the local bath
-    if ((m_localPath.length() == 0) || (m_localPath.substr( m_localPath.length()-1, 1) == "/")) {
-        //  yes, we shall append the default page name
-        m_localPath += "index.html";
-    }
-    
-    reqPath = m_rootPath + m_localPath;
-    
-    INFO("Mapping \"%s\" to \"%s\"", msg.uri.c_str(), reqPath.c_str());
-        
-    FILE *fp = fopen(reqPath.c_str(), "r");
-    if (fp != NULL) {
-        //  File was found and can be returned
-    
-        //  first determine the size
-        fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);
-        long size = ftell(fp);
-        fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
-    
-        startResponse(200, size);
-        while(!feof(fp) && !ferror(fp)) {
-            int cnt = fread(buffer, 1, MAX_BUFFERSIZE , fp);
-            processResponse(cnt, buffer);
-        }
-        endResponse();
-        fclose(fp);
-    }
-    else {
-        retval = 404;
-        ERR("Requested file was not found !");
-    }
-    
-    return retval;
-}
--- a/HTTPFsRequestHandler.h	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-/* HTTPFsRequestHandler.h */
-/*
-Copyright (c) 2013 Henry Leinen (henry[dot]leinen [at] online [dot] de)
- 
-Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
-of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
-in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
-to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
-copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
-furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
- 
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
-all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
- 
-THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
-IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
-AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
-LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
-OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
-THE SOFTWARE.
-*/
-#ifndef __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
-#define __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
-
-#include "mbed.h"
-#include "HTTPRequestHandler.h"
-
-#include <map>
-#include <string>
-
-class HTTPFsRequestHandler : public HTTPRequestHandler
-{
-        std::string m_rootPath;
-        std::string m_localPath;
-
-    public:
-        HTTPFsRequestHandler(const char* roottPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& Msg, TCPSocketConnection& Tcp);
-        virtual ~HTTPFsRequestHandler();
-  
-        static inline HTTPRequestHandler* create(const char* rootPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp) { return new HTTPFsRequestHandler(rootPath, localPath, msg, tcp); }
-              
-        /** Handler function to serve GET requests
-        */
-        virtual int handleGetRequest();
-
-        static std::map<const char*, const char*> m_fsMap;
-        static void mount(const char* requestPath, const char* localPath) { m_fsMap[requestPath] = localPath; }
-};
-#endif // __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/HTTPRequestHandler.cpp	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPRequestHandler.cpp	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -35,13 +35,15 @@
             err = handleGetRequest();
             break;
             
-//        case HTTP_RT_POST:
-//            err = handlePostRequest();
-//            break;
+        case HTTP_RT_POST:
+            INFO("Dispatching POST request.");
+            err = handlePostRequest();
+            break;
             
-//        case HTTP_RT_PUT:
-//            err = handlePutRequest();
-//            break;
+        case HTTP_RT_PUT:
+            INFO("Dispatching PUT request.");
+            err = handlePutRequest();
+            break;
             
         default:
             INFO("Error in handleRequest, unhandled request type.");
@@ -117,4 +119,3 @@
     INFO("Ending Response !");
     tcp.send("\r\n", 2);
 }
-
--- a/HTTPRequestHandler.h	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPRequestHandler.h	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 /** class HTTPRequestHandler is the base class for HTTP Handler request implementations.
 *
 */
+
 class HTTPRequestHandler
 {
     protected:
@@ -49,8 +50,12 @@
         virtual ~HTTPRequestHandler();
         
         /** Handler function which will be used by the HTTPServer to serve requests.
-        * @param msg : Request Message information.
-        * @param tcp : The socket which represents the active connection to the client.
+        * The default version of this function will dispatch respective handler member
+        * functions according to the request type given in the HTTPMessage object.
+        * The list of possible functions dispatched is :
+        * * handleGetRequest
+        * * handlePostRequest
+        * * handlePutRequest
         */
         virtual void handleRequest();
         
@@ -74,18 +79,17 @@
         void endResponse();
 
     protected:
-        /** Handler function to serve GET requests
+        /** Handler function to serve GET requests. Download ressource from server from \c uri location.
         */
         virtual int handleGetRequest() = 0;
         
-        /** Handler function to serve PUT requests
+        /** Handler function to serve PUT requests. Upload ressource to server to \c uri location.
         */
-//        virtual int handlePutRequest() = 0;
+        virtual int handlePutRequest() = 0;
         
-        /** Handler function to serve POST requests
+        /** Handler function to serve POST requests. Send data to webserver. Can also be appended to uri.
         */
-//        virtual int handlePostRequest() = 0;
-
+        virtual int handlePostRequest() = 0;
 };
 
 #endif //   __HTTPREQUESTHANDLER_H__
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/HTTPServer.cpp	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPServer.cpp	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 #include "mbed.h"
 #include "HTTPServer.h"
 
+#define _DEBUG      1
+
+#ifdef _DEBUG
 DigitalOut led1(LED1);
 DigitalOut led2(LED2);
 DigitalOut led3(LED3);
 DigitalOut led4(LED4);
+#endif
 
-#if (1 && !defined(TARGET_LPC11U24))
+#if (_DEBUG && !defined(TARGET_LPC11U24))
 #define INFO(x, ...) if (m_pDbg) m_pDbg->printf("[HttpServer : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__); else printf("[HttpServer : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
 #define WARN(x, ...) if (m_pDbg) m_pDbg->printf("[HttpServer : WARN]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__); else printf("[HttpServer : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
 #define ERR(x, ...) if (m_pDbg) m_pDbg->printf("[HttpServer : ERR]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__); else printf("[HttpServer : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
@@ -16,11 +20,13 @@
 #define ERR(x, ...)
 #endif
 
+
+/* Constructor */
+/* initialize all members and set the standard error handler. */
 HTTPServer::HTTPServer(Serial *dbg)
 {
     m_pDbg = dbg;
     m_pSvr = NULL;
-    m_bServerListening = false;
     m_pErrorHandler = StdErrorHandler;
 }
 
@@ -29,17 +35,15 @@
     if (m_pSvr) {
         delete m_pSvr;
         m_pSvr = NULL;
-        m_bServerListening = false;
     }
 }
 
 
-const char* szStdErrorPage = "<HTML><HEAD><META content=\"text/html\" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD><BODY><h1>Error 404</h1><P>This resource is not available<P></BODY></HTML>\r\n\r\n";
+static const char* szStdErrorPage = "<HTML><HEAD><META content=\"text/html\" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD><BODY><h1>Error 404</h1><P>This resource is not available<P></BODY></HTML>\r\n\r\n";
 
 void HTTPServer::StdErrorHandler(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp)
 {
-    char echoHeader[512];
-    
+    char echoHeader[256];
     tcp.set_blocking(true, 1500);
     sprintf(echoHeader,"HTTP/1.1 404 Fail\r\nContent-Length: %d\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nServer: mbed embedded\r\n\n\r",strlen(szStdErrorPage));
     tcp.send(echoHeader, strlen(echoHeader));
@@ -54,8 +58,6 @@
         ERR("start function was already called, server is already in listening state.");
         return -1;
     }
-
-    m_bServerListening = false;
     
     //  Create a new server object
     m_pSvr = new TCPSocketServer();
@@ -78,7 +80,6 @@
     }
     else {
         INFO("Listening\n");
-        m_bServerListening = true;
     }
 
     //  set into non blocking operation
@@ -96,36 +97,47 @@
     //  If so , a new HTTPConnection is created and the connection thread is started.
     TCPSocketConnection Clnt;
 
+#ifdef _DEBUG
     led4 = 1;   //  Indicate we are waiting for a new connection 
+#endif 
     if (m_pSvr->accept(Clnt) < 0) {
         //  an error occured 
         ERR("There was an error, Accept returned with an error. Probably the connection to the router was lost. Shutting down server");
+#ifdef _DEBUG
         led2 = 0;
-        m_bServerListening = false;
+#endif 
         m_pSvr->close();
         delete m_pSvr;
         m_pSvr = NULL;
+#ifdef _DEBUG
         led4 = 0;
         led3 = 1;   //  ERROR
         led2 = 0;
         led1 = 0;
+#endif
         return -1;
     }
     else {
+#ifdef _DEBUG
         led4 = 0;
+#endif 
         //   a new connection was received
         INFO("Client (IP=%s) is connected !\n", Clnt.get_address());
         //  Start the main connection thread
+#ifdef _DEBUG
         led3 = 1;
         led2 = 1;
+#endif
         HTTPConnection con;
         int c = con.poll();
         if (c == 0) {
             //  Handle the request
             HandleRequest(con.m_Msg, Clnt);
         }
+#ifdef _DEBUG
         led2 = 0;
         led3 = 0;
+#endif
     }
     
     INFO("Leaving polling thread");
@@ -137,12 +149,13 @@
     std::string localPath;
     std::map<std::string, HTTPRequestHandler*(*)(const char*, const char*, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage&, TCPSocketConnection&), handlersComp>::const_iterator it;
 
+    //  Iterate through registered handlers and check if the handler's path is a subset of the requested uri.
     for (it = m_lpHandlers.begin() ; it != m_lpHandlers.end() ; it++) {
         //  check if this entries' path is fully contained at the beginning of the requested path
         std::string curpth = it->first;
 
         if (msg.uri.find(curpth) == 0) {
-            // handler found
+            // firts matching handler found, we just take it and we'll be happy
             localPath = msg.uri.substr(curpth.length());
             break;
         }
@@ -155,31 +168,12 @@
         INFO("Webrequest left unhandled.");
     }
     else {
+        //  Valid handler was found
         INFO("Routing webrequest !");
-
+        //  Instantiate the handler object (handling will be done from withing the object's constructor
         HTTPRequestHandler *phdl = (*it->second)(it->first.c_str(), localPath.c_str(), msg, tcp);
+        //  now we can delete the object, because handling is completed.
         if (phdl != NULL)
             delete phdl;
     }
-    
 }
-/*
-void HTTPServer::HandleRequest(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp)
-{
-    map<string, HTTPRequestHandlerFunction>::iterator it;
-    
-    it = m_pHandlers.find(msg.uri);
-    
-    if (it == m_pHandlers.end()) {
-        //  There is no such handler, so return invalid
-
-        m_pErrorHandler(msg, tcp);        
-        INFO("Webrequest left unhandled.");
-    }
-    else {
-        //  Handler was found so pass action to handler
-        INFO("Routing webrequest !");
-        (it->second)(msg, tcp);
-    }
-}
-*/
\ No newline at end of file
--- a/HTTPServer.h	Tue May 28 01:56:14 2013 +0000
+++ b/HTTPServer.h	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@
 */
 class HTTPServer
 {
+        
+        TCPSocketServer*        m_pSvr;
+        bool                    m_bServerListening;
+        Serial*                 m_pDbg;
+
     public:
         /** Constructor for HTTPServer objects.
         */
@@ -83,6 +88,9 @@
         */
         ~HTTPServer();
 
+        /**
+        * Structure which will allow to order the stored handlers according to their associated path.
+        */
         struct handlersComp //Used to order handlers in the right way
         {
             bool operator() (const string& handler1, const string& handler2) const
@@ -97,20 +105,21 @@
             }
         };
 
-        ///Adds a handler
         /**
-        Appends a handler to the handlers list
-        @param T : class which will be instanciated to serve these requests
-        @param path : requests starting with this path will be served using this handler
+        * Adds a request handler to the handlers list. You will have to use one of the existing implementations.
+        * With each handler a \c uri or \c path is associated. Whenever a request is received the server will
+        * walk through all registered handlers and check which \c path is matching.
+        * @param T : class which will be instanciated to serve these requests for the associated \b path.
+        * @param path : request uri starting with this \c path will be served using this handler.
         */
         template<typename T>
         void addHandler(const char* path)
         { m_lpHandlers[path] = &T::create; }
     
         /**
-        Replaces the standard error Handler. The error Handler will be called everytime a request is not
-        handled by a handler from the handler list.
-        @param hdlFunc: Handler which serves an error condition.
+        * Replaces the standard error Handler. The error Handler will be called everytime a request is not
+        * matching any of the registered \c paths or \c uris.
+        * @param hdlFunc: User specified handler function which will be used in error conditions.
         */
         void addErrorHandler(HTTPRequestHandlerFunction hdlFunc)
         { m_pErrorHandler = hdlFunc!=NULL ?hdlFunc : StdErrorHandler; }    
@@ -124,18 +133,30 @@
         
         /** Performs the regular polling of the server component. Needs to be called cyclically.
         * The function will internally check whether new connections are requested by a client and will also poll all existing client connections.
+        * @returns -1 if there was a problem. If 0 is returned, the latest request was served successfully and the server is
+        * ready for processing the next request. Simply call \c poll as long as you want to serve new incoming requests.
         */
         int poll();
   
-    private:        
-        static void StdErrorHandler(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage&, TCPSocketConnection&);
+    private:
+        /** The standard error handler function.
+        * @param msg : Request message data.
+        * @param tcp : Socket to be used for responding.
+        */
+        static void StdErrorHandler(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp);
         
-        TCPSocketServer* m_pSvr;
-        bool    m_bServerListening;
-            
-        Serial* m_pDbg;
-        void HandleRequest(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& con, TCPSocketConnection&);
+        /** Internal function which processes a request and which will try to find the matching handler function
+        * for the given request. Please note that the function will search through the list of handlers, iterating
+        * from longest to shortest \c paths. If the registered \c path is a subset of the request the associated
+        * handler is considered as being a match.
+        * @param msg : Request message data. Contains the requested logical \c uri. 
+        * @param tcp : Socket to be used for communication with the client.
+        */
+        void HandleRequest(HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp);
     
+        /** Map of handler objects. Can be any object derived from \ref HTTPRequestHeader. Use the \ref addHandler function
+        * to register new handler objects.
+        */
         map<string, HTTPRequestHandler* (*)(const char*, const char*, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage&, TCPSocketConnection&), handlersComp>   m_lpHandlers;
         HTTPRequestHandlerFunction m_pErrorHandler;
         
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Handler/HTTPFsRequestHandler.cpp	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+/* HTTPFsRequestHandler.cpp */
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "HTTPFsRequestHandler.h"
+
+
+#define _DEBUG 1
+
+#if (_DEBUG && !defined(TARGET_LPC11U24))
+#define INFO(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
+#define WARN(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
+#define ERR(x, ...) std::printf("[HTTPFsRequestHandler : DBG]"x"\r\n", ##__VA_ARGS__);
+#else
+#define INFO(x, ...)
+#define WARN(x, ...)
+#define ERR(x, ...)
+#endif
+
+
+#define MAX_BUFFERSIZE  128
+static char buffer[MAX_BUFFERSIZE];
+
+
+std::map<const char*, const char*> HTTPFsRequestHandler::m_fsMap;
+ 
+HTTPFsRequestHandler::HTTPFsRequestHandler(const char* rootPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& Msg, TCPSocketConnection& Tcp)
+    : HTTPRequestHandler(Msg, Tcp)
+{
+    m_rootPath = rootPath;
+    m_localPath = localPath;
+    
+    //  Now replace the virtual root path with a mounted device path
+    std::map<const char*, const char*>::iterator it;
+    for (it = m_fsMap.begin() ; it != m_fsMap.end() ; it++) {
+        //  find best match (if the given logical path is containted in the root
+        if (m_rootPath.find( it->second ) == 0) {
+            m_rootPath = it->first;
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    
+    handleRequest();
+}
+
+HTTPFsRequestHandler::~HTTPFsRequestHandler()
+{
+}
+
+int HTTPFsRequestHandler::handleGetRequest()
+{
+    INFO("Handling Get Request.");
+    int retval = 200;   //success
+    std::string reqPath;
+
+    //  Check if we received a directory with the local bath
+    if ((m_localPath.length() == 0) || (m_localPath.substr( m_localPath.length()-1, 1) == "/")) {
+        //  yes, we shall append the default page name
+        m_localPath += "index.html";
+    }
+    
+    reqPath = m_rootPath + m_localPath;
+    
+    INFO("Mapping \"%s\" to \"%s\"", msg.uri.c_str(), reqPath.c_str());
+        
+    FILE *fp = fopen(reqPath.c_str(), "r");
+    if (fp != NULL) {
+        //  File was found and can be returned
+    
+        //  first determine the size
+        fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_END);
+        long size = ftell(fp);
+        fseek(fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
+    
+        startResponse(200, size);
+        while(!feof(fp) && !ferror(fp)) {
+            int cnt = fread(buffer, 1, MAX_BUFFERSIZE , fp);
+            processResponse(cnt, buffer);
+        }
+        endResponse();
+        fclose(fp);
+    }
+    else {
+        retval = 404;
+        ERR("Requested file was not found !");
+    }
+    
+    return retval;
+}
+
+int HTTPFsRequestHandler::handlePostRequest()
+{
+    return 404;
+}
+
+int HTTPFsRequestHandler::handlePutRequest()
+{
+    return 404;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/Handler/HTTPFsRequestHandler.h	Tue May 28 21:20:58 2013 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/* HTTPFsRequestHandler.h */
+/*
+Copyright (c) 2013 Henry Leinen (henry[dot]leinen [at] online [dot] de)
+ 
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+ 
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+ 
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
+*/
+#ifndef __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
+#define __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
+
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "HTTPRequestHandler.h"
+
+#include <map>
+#include <string>
+
+/** class HTTPFsRequestHandler serves requests with file-system objects
+*/
+class HTTPFsRequestHandler : public HTTPRequestHandler
+{
+        std::string m_rootPath;
+        std::string m_localPath;
+
+    public:
+        /** constructor for HTTPFsRequestHandler object and stores the request related data locally. 
+        * the request handling will be initiated from within the constructor.
+        * @param rootPath : The path under which the handler was registered.
+        * @param localPath : The path which is relative to the registered file system root.
+        * @param Msg : Message request information that comes with the request.
+        * @param Tcp : The socket connection for communicating with the client.
+        */
+        HTTPFsRequestHandler(const char* rootPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& Msg, TCPSocketConnection& Tcp);
+        
+        /** Destructor 
+        */
+        virtual ~HTTPFsRequestHandler();
+  
+        /** static creation function for this object.
+        */
+        static inline HTTPRequestHandler* create(const char* rootPath, const char* localPath, HTTPConnection::HTTPMessage& msg, TCPSocketConnection& tcp) { return new HTTPFsRequestHandler(rootPath, localPath, msg, tcp); }
+              
+        /** Handler function to serve GET requests
+        */
+        virtual int handleGetRequest();
+        
+        /** Handler function to serve PUT requests
+        */
+        virtual int handlePutRequest();
+        
+        /** Handler function to serve POST requests
+        */
+        virtual int handlePostRequest();
+
+        /** Map to register different file system types and associate them with different root paths
+        */
+        static std::map<const char*, const char*> m_fsMap;
+        
+        /** static function to register a new file system type with a logical root path
+        */
+        static void mount(const char* requestPath, const char* localPath) { m_fsMap[requestPath] = localPath; }
+        
+        /** Parse a uri string for uri file name and argument:value pairs
+        */
+        int parseUriArgs(string uri, map<string, string>& args);
+};
+#endif // __HTTPFSREQUESTHANDLER_H__
\ No newline at end of file