Invisible a écrit :
> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept 
>>> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program?
>>
>>   Any unix command-line shell will do. HTTP is pure ascii.
> 
> Yes, but parsing a HTTP request, putting the various parts of the 
> request into the necessary environment variables and piping to stdin 
> while running the CGI binary, parsing its output and adding HTTP headers 
> to send back to the web browser is... quite a lot of work. And a billion 
> opportunities for mistakes. Surely I can't be the first person on Earth 
> to have wanted to quickly test a CGI script without having to install a 
> web server?
> 
But what you describe looks awfully like a web server to me... Surely 
there are some on this page that have a very minimal configuration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers

I tried hiawatha and nullhttpd here and it seems to work. Didn't try CGI 
though, and I'm on linux... Nullhttpd does not seem to be very nicely 
documented though.

-- 
Vincent

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