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Because you need to implement a tiny HTTP server for WebSockets anyway (if you want't them to work from browsers). So, adding the ability to serve static files

• joewalnes 12y ago
  That indeed was a dilemma. Although it focusses on doing one thing well, there were also a few core things that are useful to support a websocket based app - namely a place to serve the actual web content from (static) and the ability to use websocketd using vanilla http instead of websockets (cgi).