> 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 c

> 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 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/bonjour-server.pl 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