alt Hacker NewsWow, that was a really valuable lesson. I wish I had this one at university. But the next best time to have it, is now.
So thanks!
I'll start reading the oldest HTTP spec for funzies.
Wow, that was a really valuable lesson. I wish I had this one at university. But the next best time to have it, is now.
So thanks!
I'll start reading the oldest HTTP spec for funzies.
That'd be RFC (checks notes) 1945 for HTTP1.0 and later RFC (checks notes again) 2616 for HTTP 1.1. I think there's HTTP 0.9 but I went directly for 1.0
Fwiw it's entirely possible to build a web server by listening on port 80 and reading the text stream and writing to the output stream, no libraries no frameworks no apache no ngninx. And I don't mean you need to rebuild a general purpose an apache like server, maybe for a landing page you can just serve a static page and you will be implementing a very small subset of HTTP.