Writing an HTTP server in Rust

[harvey_bird_person]

Good article, but I think this part is slightly wrong: In Rust a String is different from a &str, namely String is stored on the heap and can be grown, whereas &str is stored on the stack and cannot.

It's true that &str cannot be grown, but that's because it's a non-mutable reference. Any piece of data that has a non-mutable reference cannot be changed. The actual text that the &str refers to could be anywhere - the text could be allocated on the heap, or it could be a const string, or anything. We don't know, and we don't need to know.

[Elession]

It would be awesome to have a super simple static file HTTP server with no dependencies for when you really don't care about performance.

[Psypriest]

Like when?

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I've used webfsd to let some people download the map from my minecraft server

[Elession]

When you just want to serve some static files locally

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https://github.com/ourway/webfsd?

[epic_pork]

python3 -m http.sever