Ulfius is a web framework to build REST APIs, webservices or any HTTP endpoint in C language.
It can stream large amounts of data, integrate JSON data with Jansson, and create websocket services.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create web applications in C programs with a small memory footprint, as in embedded systems applications.
- Create webservices in HTTP or HTTPS mode, stream data, or implement server websockets:
- Create a webservice in a separate thread, the endpoint is identified by its method (ex: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) and its URL path with its optional parameters (ex: /api/doc/@id). The webservice is executed in a callback function.
- Stream large amount of data with a reduced memory footprint.
- Websocket service, the websocket messages exchange is executed in dedicated callback functions.
- Client requests:
- Client http[s] and smtp requests execution, the response is parsed in a dedicated structure.
- Client websocket request execution, the websocket messages exchange is executed in dedicated callback functions.
- Based on GNU Libmicrohttpd for the backend web server, Jansson for the json manipulation library, and Libcurl for the http/smtp client API.
Website: babelouest.github.io/ulfius
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Nicolas Mora
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
Ulfius is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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