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Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years.

by wannacboatmovie 2y ago

whiterknight 2y ago
Is there a small and portable one you recommend?
- hawski 2y ago
  I personally like busybox httpd, because sometimes it already is there.
- wannacboatmovie 2y ago
  mini_httpd, merecat, [a-z]httpd (choose one), OpenBSD httpd is nice but not portable. Your OS likely has a a built-in web server. Hell, Microsoft shipped something called Personal Web Server with Windows 95/98 nearly 30 years ago. Stop inventing new static web servers. Contribute patches to an existing project if you feel so inclined but this has been a solved problem for decades by very intelligent people who understand how the Internet works. We've gone full circle from bloated behemoths like Netscape, to serving from kernel mode (http.sys, Tux Web Server, etc.) and back again.
  - whiterknight 2y ago
    These responses are telling me there is in fact room in the market. Take pdf viewers for example. I hated all of them until I found Zarthura. I’m glad someone took the time to make that.
- dhc02 2y ago
  Someone above recommended devd, and it looks pretty nice. https://github.com/cortesi/devd https://github.com/cortesi/devd
mrweasel 2y ago
Yeah, but this one actually refreshes the browser when a file is modified on disk (of the server). I don't recall seeing that in any other webserver, at least not out of the box. It is pretty clever, not sure how much need I have for it, but it's an interesting idea.
- wannacboatmovie 2y ago
  Extremely large beverage holder...bubble dome...a horn that plays "La Cucaracha"...
  - mrweasel 2y ago
    > Extremely large beverage holder. You joke, but the only thermo mug that I've been able to find that fits into my car is an off-brand one my mother-in-law picked up from a bargain bin in Lidl. None of my five mugs or bottles fit.
shprd 2y ago
> Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years. That only shows your ignorance. By that logic, transportation has been a solved problem for millennia. We were moving from A to B for quite some time. When your wife tells you "Hey, look what I cooked for dinner"? Do you tell her "I have seen this dish 30 years ago, why don't you develop new recipes instead?" Find something better to do than belittling others side projects that they shared for fun.

Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years.

whiterknight 2y ago

Is there a small and portable one you recommend?

hawski 2y ago
I personally like busybox httpd, because sometimes it already is there.
wannacboatmovie 2y ago
mini_httpd, merecat, [a-z]httpd (choose one), OpenBSD httpd is nice but not portable. Your OS likely has a a built-in web server. Hell, Microsoft shipped something called Personal Web Server with Windows 95/98 nearly 30 years ago. Stop inventing new static web servers. Contribute patches to an existing project if you feel so inclined but this has been a solved problem for decades by very intelligent people who understand how the Internet works. We've gone full circle from bloated behemoths like Netscape, to serving from kernel mode (http.sys, Tux Web Server, etc.) and back again.
- whiterknight 2y ago
  These responses are telling me there is in fact room in the market. Take pdf viewers for example. I hated all of them until I found Zarthura. I’m glad someone took the time to make that.
dhc02 2y ago
Someone above recommended devd, and it looks pretty nice. https://github.com/cortesi/devd https://github.com/cortesi/devd

mrweasel 2y ago

Yeah, but this one actually refreshes the browser when a file is modified on disk (of the server). I don't recall seeing that in any other webserver, at least not out of the box. It is pretty clever, not sure how much need I have for it, but it's an interesting idea.

wannacboatmovie 2y ago
Extremely large beverage holder...bubble dome...a horn that plays "La Cucaracha"...
- mrweasel 2y ago
  > Extremely large beverage holder. You joke, but the only thermo mug that I've been able to find that fits into my car is an off-brand one my mother-in-law picked up from a bargain bin in Lidl. None of my five mugs or bottles fit.

shprd 2y ago

> Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years. That only shows your ignorance. By that logic, transportation has been a solved problem for millennia. We were moving from A to B for quite some time. When your wife tells you "Hey, look what I cooked for dinner"? Do you tell her "I have seen this dish 30 years ago, why don't you develop new recipes instead?" Find something better to do than belittling others side projects that they shared for fun.