[wallmountedtv]

I hear this comment warnings, and can easily see this myself being true. But, how could one actually make a reasonably safe http server in C from scratch?

That would honestly sound like an amazing book, just walking through all the ways it's horrible chapter by chapter, and how to structure the code instead, slowly. Like an accelerated history to create such a matured http library.

[throwaway2037]

I like your idea for the book. I hope that Robert Nystrom writes it.