Description
The HTTP web application specifications that the server will construct.
The configuration of each specified HTTP web application must have a location property (of type string). The location property corresponds to the path or set of paths which will will be handled by the specified HTTP web application.
Simple configuration
The http composite property does not contain any value properties.
Composite configuration
The http composite property can contain any conforming composite property.
A conforming composite property represents an HTTP web application, the configuration of which must contain the following simple properties.
| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| location | string | The path or set of paths which will be handled by the web application. |
Built-in web-apps
The following HTTP web applications are available from the Balau library.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| files | Serving of static file GET requests from the file system. |
| email.sender | Handles website contact POST requests and sends an email after mapping the contact request to an email body. |
| redirections | Performs 301 or 302 redirection for the specified locations. |
| canned | Serves a fixed response for each HTTP request method. |
| failing | Returns 404 for POST, GET, and HEAD requests. |
Custom web-apps
Custom HTTP web applications must be registered by calling the following function before the application injector is created.
HttpWebApp::registerHttpWebApp<WebAppT>(name);