Server directory

[fitzy]

Hi,

I have developped a server.

I can access it using firefox, IE, ... thanks to http://localhost:4242/

Now, I would like to be able to create directories, such as
http://localhost:4242/DIRECTORY-1/
http://localhost:4242/DIRECTORY-2/


How can I do it ? :confused:

[fitzy]

Any idea ?

[ChrisW67]

This is not a Qt-specific question.

Your server needs to do define and implement a set of commands for clients to use.

The way that a web browser does this is to break apart the URL, connect to the designated server process, and send a command to fetch the file at the specified path.


http://localhost:4242/DIRECTORY-1/

in your browser address bar becomes:

connect to localhost port 4242,
issue the command: "GET /DIRECTORY-1/ HTTP/1.0"
wait for, and interpret, the response
The web server sits waiting for connections, listens to issued commands from clients, and responds to the client.

[fitzy]

Ok thank you very much :)

Now, let's say I want to load an image like this :

http://localhost:4242/DIRECTORY-1/tree.png

How is it possible to send the image "tree.png" to the client ?
I tried to send the path of the file (<img src="file:///c:/tree.png" />) but it doesn't work (the browsers don't show it, though the path is correct, I don't get it :confused:).

[faldzip]

you can embed image into html inserting it as base64 (read the image file to QByteArray and call toBase64()):


<img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,here_paste_the_base64_encoded_image" width="129" height="32"/>