I was also always curious about this and recently wrote a few implementations of an http file server to teach myself the key differences. https://theconsensus.

I was also always curious about this and recently wrote a few implementations of an http file server to teach myself the key differences. https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18/serving-files-three-ways.html https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/05/18/serving-files-three-wa...