A little web server written in C for Linux.
Supports: CGI, Reverse Proxy.
Single threaded using I/O multiplexing (select).
Show HN: A little web server in C
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Show HN: A little web server in C
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Re: Show HN: A little web server in C
#2Interesting. Would be good to get more info, beyond having to read the code.
Curious to know how it compares to micro_httpd [1] which is about 200 lines of C. Or others like thttpd and tiny_httpd.
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#3Thank you so much for sharing this!
This is exactly the type of web server I'm looking for my project.
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#5Shameless plug for when I attempted something similar, though multithreaded with pthreads: https://github.com/lionkor/http
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#6Here's also althttpd [0]. Heard Richard Hipp mention it and fossil in an interview.
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I dunno. I haven't written a multiplexing I/O server. I haven't written a CGI forking process. I haven't written a reverse proxy handler. Heck, I haven't written C in years.
All sorts of reason why someone might want to write one of these. There's even a bunch of free tools to help test it (and who doesn't like free tests!).
Until you put fingers to keyboard, you just don't know, it's all book learnin'.
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I dunno. I haven't written a multiplexing I/O server. I haven't written a CGI forking process. I haven't written a reverse proxy handler. Heck, I haven't written C in years. All sorts of reason why someone might want to write one of these. There's even a bunch of free tools to help test it (and who doesn't like free tests!). Until you put fingers to keyboard, you just don't know, it's all book learnin'.
Good for you. Great way to learn!
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#9The amount of written functions/libs for opening c sockets has to be in the 100,000s at this point. And they are all slightly different.
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#10Cool project, but this project demonstrates the reason I've stopped writing things in C. The standard library has garbage string functions and it seems every project has its own version of this file:
https://github.com/robdelacruz/lkwebserver/blob/main/lkstrin...
It's fun to write this (and read others' versions) the first 3 or 4 times, but it gets old quickly.