Raphters, a web framework for C

Re:Raphters, a web framework for C by sunkencity on Monday April 04, 2011 @03:42PM (#2408178)

Pretty cool, but if I really had to write some kind of C stuff to output web pages I suppose I'd just build it as an apache module rather than go the CGI route, there's lots of useful functions and nifty stuff within apache making it a pretty nice environment for serving stuff.

(Or more probably since it's 2011, I'd try an nginx module (or lightty), although I have never looked at any of those projects code yet).

Building response stuff in C is pretty high maintenance stuff though.

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Re:Raphters, a web framework for C by chuhnk on Monday April 04, 2011 @05:39PM (#2408671)

Funnily enough this was going to be my starting point into writing a C webapp. I felt that by writing a C module directly embedded in an existing web server it would allow me to leverage the request handling. Having already done bugfixes for apache C modules are work it felt the most relevant path to take. The problem I see with it though is you are bound to the webserver you write the module for. Portability would be nice.

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