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Acorn
Asked: 2010-10-31 04:25:34 +0800 CST

Basic local HTTP daemon

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I'm trying to find the most basic HTTP deamon possible.

All it needs to do is allow me to access local files through a browser using the http:// protocol.

(I can't use file://)

Would be great if it was something that only had functionality for serving pages on localhost. Portable/lightweight would be great too!

Maybe a single script?

http unix lightweight daemon

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    thttpd is probably as small as I can think of without going into the in-kernel http servers like khttpd. It's not directly windows compatible, but someone came up with a version built in Cygwin.

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  2. lighttpd is fairly light, it uses around 10MiB and is available for Windows and Linux.

    To have lower memory usage, I think you'll need to look at web servers for embedding.

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  3. I think BusyBox is just what I need!

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