On 2022-01-23 12:08, Stefan Esser wrote:
Am 23.01.22 um 18:12 schrieb Jose Quinteiro:On 1/23/22 09:06, tech-lists wrote:On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:55:09AM -0800, Jose Quinteiro wrote:You can run HTTP on a non-standard port. For example, 8080 is commonly used. As an added bonus, this means that the HTTP server need not run as root.Unless I'm mistaken, there is no web server in base. There is though, an ftp server.Touche. I wouldn't mind having Thttpd in base. https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/An interesting idea, we have it as a port in www/thttpd. While we generally rather move base components that are not generally required to ports, this might be a case where it makes sense to replace one base system component by another one currently only available as a port ... The thttpd binary is smaller than the ftpd currently in base,
The binaries may be smaller. But I would argue that the "holes" potentially created are *larger*. :-) An otherwise interesting proposition.
and it might make sense to replace ftpd by this simple httpd: $ size /usr/libexec/ftpd text data bss dec hex filename 105901 4276 5984 116161 1c5c1 /usr/libexec/ftpd $ size work/stage/usr/local/sbin/* text data bss dec hex filename 5469 656 112 6237 185d work/stage/usr/local/sbin/makeweb 7453 760 120 8333 208d work/stage/usr/local/sbin/thtpasswd 81184 8336 2280 91800 16698 work/stage/usr/local/sbin/thttpd The sources are distributed under a 2 clause BSD copyright. Maybe having a HTTP server in base is more useful than a FTP server, today ... Regards, STefan
-- Chris
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