On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Ed W <li...@wildgooses.com> wrote: > 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 agree. The next thing you'll know, people will want an IMAP proxy and a user-space NFS server in dnsmasq. > 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... Have you considered boa (http://www.boa.org/) ? It's been around a long time, is rock solid, and produces a fast and very small executable. -- Jon
