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Re: Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

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Post by yazzku »

cozis wrote: post #2

Hello everyone! This is a fun little project I started in my spare time and thought you'd appreciate :)

Appreciated indeed. I happened to want to mess around with the C11 concurrency API and write a server of sorts, mostly as a curiosity of how those constructs work out in C coming from C++.

Re: Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

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Post by TZubiri »

Nice. I've done this in the past. But I feel like attempting to make a file serving http server is like adding preservants and high fructose corn syrup to home made baked goods.

You have the opportunity to really make something custom and of high quality, hard code the paths of your files and avoid a whole class of vulnerabilities for example.

Configuration files? That makes sense when programmer and sysadmin are distinct, you can just modify variables and recompile.

Re: Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server

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Post by jagged-chisel »

TZubiri wrote: post #4

Nice. I've done this in the past. But I feel like attempting to make a file serving http server is like adding preservants and high fructose corn syrup to home made baked goods. You have the opportunity to really make something custom and of high quality, hard code the paths of your files and avoid a whole class of vulnerabilities for example. Configuration files? That makes sense when programmer and sysadmin are dis…

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