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# A C++ Gemini server
## Introduction
As I saw other implementations in Rust but no C++ to compete, I felt that I had to do something ;-). It is also a chance for me and a friend (
Brumaire) to practice C++ and to try to get as much performance as possible (my speciality is HPC so… Yeah).
## Design
I use PlantUML to do the class diagram for the design. It's a work in progress.
## Goal
What we want is a high performance server using asynchrony at first, and then maybe multi-threading to have the maximum possible performance.
## Configuration
**WIP**
The configuration of the server is made through a JSON file `config.json`. The JSON parser is [simdjson](https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson)
directly integrated in our source code.
### Structure of the file
- content
- path : string, folder to the content of your site.
- cache
- enable_cache: bool, to enable cache of files or not
- cache_size : unsigned int, the maximum size in bytes to put in cache
- ssl
- pem_path : string
- cert_path : string
## Dependencies
It uses a bundled version of `spdlog` as a git submodule, but it does not use the `fmt` lib that is inside `spdlog` (you can still change it in the
CMakeLists).
## Documentation
The doc of the code is made with [doxygen](https://www.doxygen.nl/), the `Doxyfile` is at the root of the repo.
## TODO/features
* Possibility of an applicative gateway (like CGI for example)
* Content in RAM cache
* Asynchronous (boost ASIO deals with it)