Good for you. Great way to learn!
> Until you put fingers to keyboard, you just don't know, it's all book learnin'.
This!
Also writing a HTTP server seems like a hacker rite of passage, like creating your own lightsaber for a Jedi.
So last Christmas, I did just that :)
Personally, I like retrocomputing so I did mine in perl. I learned a lot of things, and I added a few "modern features" as extras like mDNS and cosmopolitan, because it's more fun to use something.local that 127.0.0.1)
It's on https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean and if you want to dig into mDNS, check the Bonjour part on https://github.com/csdvrx/PerlPleBean/blob/main/experiments/...
It's very fun to be able to launch just one executable and then curl whatever.local
Re:Show HN: A little web server in C
by robdelacruz on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:54AM
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Love your project and enjoyed reading your extended README file. Perl and retrocomputing gives me a warm feeling inside.
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'.