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in thread How Internet is a mess. (Playing with HTTPD)

Now do you see why people don't just go running around writing their own HTTP servers? By the time you're done writing it and finding every possible security problem, you could have installed Apache (or any of several other open source servers) a few hundred times. Nothing personal, but the "it's too hard to install so I wrote my own" argument just doesn't hold up.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: How Internet is a mess. (Playing with HTTPD)
by gmpassos (Priest) on Feb 28, 2003 at 04:19 UTC
    I respect your point of view. But I'm not doing this for me!

    And I'm not doing all the HTTP server, I'm using the module HTTP::Daemon. That doesn't filter the malicious querys. After test the filter of the querys I will send it to the author of HTTP::Daemon, to insert it in the next release, and no one will need to make it again! This is how Perl works. ;-P

    Note that HPL::HTTPD is not only a HTTP server. It creates a CGI enverioment to run the HPL docs. The code for the http connection is the smallest.

    But one thing I know. I have learned a lot just posting this node. And this has a big value for me.

    Graciliano M. P.
    "The creativity is the expression of the liberty".

      Glad to hear you'll be sending a patch for HTTP::Daemon. That's a good thing for all of us.