Soo.. yeah.. I've just build a fully functional http webserver with BASH :) Yippee!!

Proof in the comments

python -m http.server

https://garyrobinson.net/2004/03/...

@Demolishun it's not shell :) it's a full-blown programming language with tens of megs of packages

@theKarlisK soon :)

#/bin/bash
php -S localhost:8080

@ilikeglue nope.. I only use bash and one other tool that usually comes preinstalled with linux, along with the gnu toolset. Those are the only two binaries

The point of all my scripts is to have as little dependencies as possible to do the job. So that you could simply copy-paste them into any other machine as text and they would work.

If any dependencies required - I pick them to be as standard to the barebones OS as possible.

Congratulations on the server, but did you just commented all the code in the comments followed by a special call for @highlight bot , followed by deleting your previously written text messages ?😆

@StopWastingTime

@StopWastingTime yepp.. Why?

It’s like doing PHP with IIS, or .Net with Apache. It is possible, but no one in their right mind should do that. Ever.

@NoToJavaScript but it's hell of a fun!

Ofc noone in their tight mind would write ping-pong, json parser, threads-like parallel-execution engine, chat app, other stuff like that with bash.

But I often do those things, because it's freaking fun, it's hell of a challenge and it makes you build efficient algorithms.

Everyone can import a json parser lib in their projects. How many of you have built one? How many of you know how exactly they work? How many of you could make a functional analog in a very limited language, like bash?
I doubt anyone would bother. It's a difficult challenge. And these are exactly the challenges I'm tripping from!

Some people party to have fun. Others sky-dive. Some like rafting. I prefer shell scripting!

If you didn't use netcat, then what are we even doing here?

@netikras Python 3.8 is 25Megs for Windows installer. Also usually comes preinstalled in a lot of Linux distros. The python webserver is cross platform. I suppose you could run your bash server in Ubuntu shell in Windows?

I just mostly wanted to poke the dragon...

@StopWastingTime

@bahua Who said I didn't :)

@theKarlisK There
https://gitlab.com/netikras/bhttp

Still a lot to do. But it does work already :)

@netikras

I figured you did. I just wanted to be the one who guessed first.

so when do we get to ACE it? :D

Bah. Take your upvote, you impressive bastard ;)

@Demolishun How do I serve it my own content? I.e. how do I map "GET:/hello" with a response "hello world!" using `python -m http.server`?

I surely don't want to be serving my files. I'd like dynamic content :)

@netikras

donk="piss off, world!"

date +%s | grep -qE "[24680]" && donk="hello world!"

echo $donk

@bahua Sorry, I don't follow. Nor did I get the significance of that number nor can I figure out which comment you are replying to :) It surely doesn't look 'python', so please, help me out here :)

@netikras

It was just some shell nonsense to create, "dynamic" output. I didn't know you were looking for python. I can't help with that.

@bahua aahh, I see now. That's why my comment was addressed to Demolishun ;) He was suggesting to use python instead

I'm interested in server.bash did you post it somewhere?

@hjk101 I did or or there 😁

@netikras 🤣 my cat was having an interest in the phone didn't see he did that. Prrr prr orr orr

@hjk101 your cat is quite an english speaker! What did it had in mind tho?

weird flex, but ok