Wiretap

Work In Progress

Wiretap is a minimal TCP/HTTP server implementation in Elixir (Educational).

Architecture (Minimal)

The application follows a standard OTP supervision tree structure:

graph TD
    A[Wiretap.Application] -->|Starts| B(Wiretap.Supervisor)
    B -->|Supervises| C{Wiretap.TCPListener}
    C -->|Spawns| D[Task: Client Handler]
    C -->|Spawns| E[Task: Client Handler]
    D -.->|Uses| F[Wiretap.Http]

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• Wiretap.Application: The entry point ensuring the system starts.
• Wiretap.Supervisor: Supervises the TCP Listener.
• Wiretap.TCPListener: Listens on port 4010. Accepts connections and spawns a specific Task for each client to ensure concurrency.
• Wiretap.Http: (WIP) Module responsible for parsing raw binary data into HTTP requests and formatting responses.

Todo

• HTTP Parsing
  • Parse Request Line (Method, Target, Version)
  • Parse Headers
  • Parse Body
• Routing
  • Simple route matching mechanism
• Response Handling
  • valid HTTP/1.1 response generation
• Concurrency & Robustness
  • Refine Task supervision (Task.Supervisor?)
• Configuration
  • Make port configurable