A Small Web Server

Question

Can someone suggest a small webserver implementation that will illustrate the concepts of what a webserver does? It should be in a language that is easily read, and understood, and should implement security and cgi, maybe javascript?

Answer 1

lighttpd

Answer 2

Cassini

Answer 3

Github Mongrel source repository

• Well documented
• Fully tested
• Mostly Ruby so it's quite easy to read
• You can pull down the repo and play around with the code quite easily

Answer 4

thttpd, a tiny/turbo/throttling http server.

It is written in C. If by "a language that is easily read" you meant "not C," then nevermind.

Answer 5

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=webserver.r

A web server written in a few lines - easily understood.

or, this one, with CGI

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=webserv.r

What do you mean by security? Javascript is normally just page content.

Answer 6

http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/recipes/0057.html

one of the former REBOL ones with explanations