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It is a socat server, not bash. Basically a bash script calling socat. Definitely not “pure”.

by medv 5y ago

prussian 5y ago
Someone beat me to it. When I think of pure bash, I don't really think of invoking anything that isn't a builtin or a grammatical feature of bash. If socat is fair-play, almost anything you can spawn on a shell should count then. edit: on top of that, I already found a perl script utility in the repo: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/utils/mimetype https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/uti...
- fragbait65 5y ago
  I think I'll just write something similar and wrap Apache with a shell scrip, claim that it's a web server written in bash, post it here and see what reaction I get, just for shits and giggles.
  - prussian 5y ago
    Here: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/issues/1 https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/issues/1 that way you can have HTTP/1.1 support even with arbitrary output lengths. I was planning on sending this to the linked repo so the owner doesn't need to use HTTP/1.0. EDIT: changed link to the github issue I created with inlined utility.
- bluetomcat 5y ago
  Jokingly, "sudo service apache2 start" may also be considered pure Bash :-)
  - fragbait65 5y ago
    Exactly!
junon 5y ago
~~Right. "Pure" bash would mean they somehow got sockets working in the scripting language itself, which is not possible unless you're on a system with `/dev/tcp` (which isn't many these days).~~ I am wrong! See response.
- rzzzt 5y ago
  /dev/tcp is a Bash construct (mentioned as "pseudo-device file" in the manual): https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
  - junon 5y ago
    Oh huh, TIL it's only a Bash thing. I stand corrected - I thought it was a Linux thing that was removed for security reasons. Thanks for correcting me :)
tyingq 5y ago
Bash can't do listen sockets, so I don't think a pure bash web server is possible. You can make an "pure" gawk web server, though it works terribly https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#gistcomment-3143007 https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#gistcomment-3143007
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dang 5y ago
Ok, we've impured the title above.
loeg 5y ago
There’s always https://github.com/cemeyer/httpd.sh https://github.com/cemeyer/httpd.sh .

It is a socat server, not bash. Basically a bash script calling socat. Definitely not “pure”.

by medv 5y ago

It is a socat server, not bash. Basically a bash script calling socat. Definitely not “pure”.

Someone beat me to it. When I think of pure bash, I don't really think of invoking anything that isn't a builtin or a grammatical feature of bash. If socat is fair-play, almost anything you can spawn on a shell should count then. edit: on top of that, I already found a perl script utility in the repo: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/utils/mimetype https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/blob/master/scripts/uti...

fragbait65 5y ago
I think I'll just write something similar and wrap Apache with a shell scrip, claim that it's a web server written in bash, post it here and see what reaction I get, just for shits and giggles.
- prussian 5y ago
  Here: https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/issues/1 https://github.com/remileduc/sherver/issues/1 that way you can have HTTP/1.1 support even with arbitrary output lengths. I was planning on sending this to the linked repo so the owner doesn't need to use HTTP/1.0. EDIT: changed link to the github issue I created with inlined utility.
bluetomcat 5y ago
Jokingly, "sudo service apache2 start" may also be considered pure Bash :-)
- fragbait65 5y ago
  Exactly!

junon 5y ago

~~Right. "Pure" bash would mean they somehow got sockets working in the scripting language itself, which is not possible unless you're on a system with `/dev/tcp` (which isn't many these days).~~ I am wrong! See response.

rzzzt 5y ago
/dev/tcp is a Bash construct (mentioned as "pseudo-device file" in the manual): https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html https://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/devref1.html
- junon 5y ago
  Oh huh, TIL it's only a Bash thing. I stand corrected - I thought it was a Linux thing that was removed for security reasons. Thanks for correcting me :)

tyingq 5y ago

Bash can't do listen sockets, so I don't think a pure bash web server is possible. You can make an "pure" gawk web server, though it works terribly https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#gistcomment-3143007 https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#gistcomment-3143007

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dang 5y ago

Ok, we've impured the title above.

loeg 5y ago

There’s always https://github.com/cemeyer/httpd.sh https://github.com/cemeyer/httpd.sh .