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8 changes: 4 additions & 4 deletions Chapters/04-http-server.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ But the messages that are transmitted inside this connection are in a
specific format. They are HTTP messages
(i.e. messages that use the HTTP Protocol specification).
The HTTP Protocol is the backbone of the modern web.
The world wide web as we know it today, would not exist without the
The world wide web as we know it today, would not exist without the
HTTP Protocol.

So, Web servers (which is just a fancy name to
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such HTTP server in C.


In essence, we normally implement a HTTP server in C by using WebSocket technology,
In essence, we normally implement a HTTP server in C by using the Unix socket abstraction,
which involves the following steps:

1. Create a socket object.
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door, or, the specific port to use in the host machine.

The sequence of 4 numbers (i.e. the host) identifies the machine (i.e. the computer itself) where
this socket will live in. Every computer normally have multiple "doors" available inside of him, because
this socket will live in. Every computer normally have multiple "doors" available inside of him, because
this allows the computer to receive and work with multiple connections at the same time.
He simply use a single door for each connection. So the port number, is
essentially a number that identifies the specific door in the computer that will be responsible
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a port number is a 16-bit unsigned integer (type `u16` in Zig),
thus ranging from 0 to 65535 [@wikipedia_port].
So, we can choose
a number from 0 to 65535 for our port number. In the
a number from 0 to 65535 for our port number. In the
example of this book, I will use the port number 3490
(just a random number).

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