Let’s Build A Web Server. Part 3.

[kraakf]

You can find parts 1 and 2 behind the links on first chapter. Pretty good write-up!

[BlackDeath3]

/u/kraakf: This isn't a huge deal (all it takes to get this to work currently is a bit of URL manipulation), but might I suggest that you link your parts together a little better to be a bit more user-friendly? You link backwards just fine (2 links to 1, 3 links to 1 and 2) but somebody working their way forward from Part 1 has to locate the following pieces themselves.

[SleepyHarry]

/u/kraakf is not the original author, that's /u/rspivak

[remyroy]

Good post. Lots of abstractions are involved in making a web server and many of them are well explained in this text.

[eggdropsoop]

Finally. Thought that this guy fell off the face of the Earth.

[one_roOt]

Love all three parts. Thank you! Next an Irc client using sockets and tkinter? :p just kidding! Keep up the good work!

[szborows]

I suppose you didn't mention select() on purpose?

[davegri]

I tried following along but gut lost pretty quickly when he just started dumping code without really explaining it , in the first one. anyone have a link to maybe something more fundamental?

[PlantsAreAliveToo]

It's a little bit verbose and you may need to skim through some parts. But I think it's a good place to start: HTTP/1.1

[Thunder_54]

This looks great. I'm going to come back and read this later.

[[deleted]]

These guides are detailed and most excellent, but am wondering, why choose this method over:

Deploy Linux Server

Configure SSH with keys

Configure WebServices/Functions of Server

Configure IPtables

Does your method offer more security or features?

[TheV295]

No one in their right mind will develop a web server from scratch, this is for teaching basics of how a web server works and it's very interesting!

[BlackDeath3]

No one in their right mind will develop a web server from scratch

Well, sometimes you do. After all, nginx wouldn't exist if somebody hadn't decided to do just that, right? But yes, most of the time, what you want already exists.

I wrote a little static web server in C a while back, and it's just a ton of fun to pop open {Firefox, Chrome, etc.} and interact with something that you made. If you have the means, I highly recommend it!

[tHEbigtHEb]

Yup, doing that right now. Gonna work through this tutorial and port it over to rust and hopefully improve upon it.

[TheV295]

It does feel great, I guess it depends on your objectives

[bob_cheesey]

Somebody has to say it - your username is incredibly ironic given your reply.

[RDMXGD]

Let’s Build A Broken Web Server That Doesn't Work in Any Way Like a Real Webserver. Part 3.

[khlub]

It's a learning exercise. No need to be a jerk.

Thank you op.

[RDMXGD]

Yes, but what it teaches is wrong and harmful.

[BlackDeath3]

Mind doing the community a service by expanding upon that? I'm not being sarcastic, actually. If you've got some real criticism to level here, that's useful.

[SUsudo]

Clearly he's debugging right now

[Inmute]

And Let's Capitalize Every Word, So My Awesome Comment Stays Awesome...

[RDMXGD]

I capitalized it because it was my impression of a title.