This is traditionally what inetd does --- it received incoming connections via sockets and the proxies them to stdin/stdout. Here's a basic HTTP server in shel

This is traditionally what inetd does --- it received incoming connections via sockets and the proxies them to stdin/stdout. Here's a basic HTTP server in shell: https://gist.github.com/robspassky/1959319 https://gist.github.com/robspassky/1959319 Of course, it's not as cool as doing the actual low level socket stuff in shell...