[mettamage]

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.

[TZubiri]

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.

[mettamage]

Haha, thanks! I'll check them out.

> 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

Sounds like a fun weekend project.