Preface

About this book

This guide is provided with the ARM Webserver protocol software.

It is assumed that the ARM Webserver porting sources are available as a reference. It is also assumed that the reader has access to programmer guides for C and ARM assembly language.

Intended audience

This document has been written for experienced embedded systems programmers, with a general understanding of what an embedded webserver does.

Organization

This book is organized into the following chapters:

Chapter 1 Introduction

This chapter introduces the ARM Webserver software.

Chapter 2 About the ARM Webserver

This chapter provides an architectural overview of the ARM Webserver, and discusses the Virtual File System (VFS), security issues, and system requirements.

Chapter 3 Porting Step-by-Step

This chapter outlines what you need to do, step-by-step, to get the server working in your embedded system.

Chapter 4 Using the HTML Compiler

This chapter describes how to use the HTML Compiler, a software program which takes the files for your web pages, and compiles them into C structures which become VFS files in your embedded server.

Appendix A Building the Demonstration Program

This appendix details the requirements, installation procedure, and steps required to build the demonstration program.