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> That's folk wisdom, but is it actually true? "Hundreds of lines just to grab a query parameter from a URL." No, because... > In practice you would probably parse all parameters at once and maybe use a library. In the 90s I wrote CGI applications in C; a single function, on startup, parsed the request params into an array (today I'd use a hashmap, but I was very young then and didn't know any better) of `struct {cha…
> I wonder what a C library would look like today, for handling HTTP requests. Isn't that CURL?
>> I wonder what a C library would look like today, for handling HTTP requests.
> Isn't that CURL?
Curl sends requests, it doesn't handle incoming requests.