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Re:ACME Laboratories by chomp on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:14PM (#32233480)
Used the heck out of thttpd back in the day. Lots of fond memories!
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Re:ACME Laboratories by stevekemp on Monday July 25, 2022 @11:16PM (#32233851)
Me too! I used one instance of thttpd for each virtual host on my machine, with haproxy routing towards them.

The idea being that I could chroot them, and have a different UID for each site, for security.

I had to patch it to add IPv6 support to the X-Forwarded-For header, if I recall correctly.

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Re:ACME Laboratories by rascul on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @08:06AM (#32237157)
Attack of the Repo Men is a fun story.

https://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html

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