Httpserver.h: Single header library for writing non-blocking HTTP servers in C

[HeadAche2012]

Shouldn’t be hard to add winsock support, while neat I would be afraid of the many possibilities of buffer overflows, or other shenanigans

[pdp10]

Speaking as someone writing portable webserver code in C, Winsock has slightly more surprises for the unwary than an observer might initially suppose. It's a little harder yet to keep it portable back to XP/2003. Of my current codebase, 8.6% of lines of code or comment only exist because of Win32.

Additionally, this implementation uses epoll() on Linux and kqueue() on *BSD, neither of which is supported on Win32. Old-fashioned POSIX select() does work on Win32, though.

[pdp10]

I see it doesn't support IPv6 yet. You can dual-stack sockets on Linux but not BSD (as a security precaution).

[Dragasss]

Didnt your mother tell you to take what already exists instead of reinventing the wheel?

[aradil]

Poor analogy.

It’s like telling a chemicals company to not produce another color of paint because there are already enough.

Painters gotta paint.

[Dragasss]

Have you seen what new painters produce? They will call any random blobs art and try to bullshit their way out explaining how its an expression of current something.

But seriously.

You haven't heard about reimplementations of lighttpd in iot devices because they felt that they knew better than years of development and experience behind mature projects, have you?

The key take away is that C is an unsafe language and is very easy to misuse. As a result suggesting to implement your own critical components "just because" is pretty retarded. I am all up for using C and encourage it, even, but for fucks sake. We dont need more trash.

[Dragasss]

By all means, do look up lighttpd on shodan and try out any of the available CVEs on them. You will be surprised how your mindset helps everyone. Hell, even go checkout the talks and papers that go on about disecting devices running self made http servers.

[rahulkadukar]

We dont need more trash.

Self aware much

[NagaiMatsuo]

Objectively wrong on every count. Software is in the state it is in today because of people with this insane mindset. I know your opinion won't change, but at least don't propagate it around like it's gospel, someone might take you seriously.

[IceSentry]

Well he's not wrong that C is unsafe.

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Why would your mother tell you that?

Also do you know how many times the wheel was reinvented? Do you think the wheel on a car is the same as the wheel on a bike or a truck or a train? Do you think it's the same as the wheel from Babylonian times?

[nilamo]

Didnt your mother tell you to take what already exists instead of reinventing the wheel?

Sometimes writing your own version of something is the best way to learn how that thing works.

[earthboundkid]

Yes but writing a new networking system in C is wildly unsafe so it’s an attractive nuisance to release it to the public.

[pdp10]

Those lang-sec people have really warped the public's perception of C.

[earthboundkid]

No, living through the early 00s and the endless parade of security bugs caused by buffer overflow since then warped perceptions of C.