On 25/05/2011 14:31, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Shantanu Gadgil > <shantanugad...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. >> >> The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has >> HTTP support (syslinux-4.10-pre14+) to load the kernel and initrd images > > There are already plenty of lightweight embedded web servers. What do > you see as the advantage of putting it inside dnsmasq? Is the web > content going to include dnsmasq-internal information such as the dhcp > lease table, dns cache, cache statistics, etc?
I tend to agree Now, the next question is perhaps, what is the lightest weight and most dependency free simply http server? For example I have a server that I want to add to the ntp pool and one of their requests is that any http request to that IP is responded to with a redirect to the main http://pool.ntp.org website - trivial and desperately in need of a super lightweight server? I can think of busybox's server. Probably there are some trivial perl scripts (but I would want to hear they weren't exploitable...). Any other ideas for a trivial lightweight http server? Minimal logging, 301 redirects and static file serving being the only requirements - non conforming to non mainstream http request headers completely acceptable... Cheers Ed W
