Show HN: A little web server in C

Re:Show HN: A little web server in C by csdvrx on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:13PM (#35969028)

> 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

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Re:Show HN: A little web server in C by robdelacruz on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:54AM (#35984824)

Love your project and enjoyed reading your extended README file. Perl and retrocomputing gives me a warm feeling inside.

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Re:Show HN: A little web server in C by csdvrx on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:26PM (#35990349)

Thanks! I've got to get back at it :)

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