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ACME Laboratories
- fanf2 4y agothttpd appeared here 7 weeks ago, which had me reminiscing about running a web server with 96,000 IP addresses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664466
- macksd 4y agoSurprisingly no mention of RFC-8555 (Automated Certificate Management Environment, the Let's Encrypt protocol) under "Other ACMEs on the Web" :D
- W-Stool 4y agoIt appears the ACME Portable Hole is no longer available.
- chomp 4y agoUsed the heck out of thttpd back in the day. Lots of fond memories!
- stevekemp 4y agoMe 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.
- rascul 4y agoAttack of the Repo Men is a fun story. https://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html https://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html
- hirundo 4y agoThis gives me a different impression of the Methodists than I had: https://acme.com/jef/religion_sex/ https://acme.com/jef/religion_sex/
- karaokeyoga 4y agoMy most-coveted domain name for the past 2.5 decades.
- barryp 4y agoI always liked the way he formatted his C code - opening and closing braces on indented on line by themselves, the code inside the braces indented the same amount. Appealed to my Python side, long before I ever saw Python. Wrote a lot of code that way, wish that style had caught on.
- cylinder714 4y agoI think Jef was the original author of the excellent PBM image-conversion utilities: https://acme.com/software/pbmplus/ https://acme.com/software/pbmplus/ They're still usable, but the netpbm project has expanded upon Jef's work: http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/ http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/