A Shell Server for HTTP

The HTTP protocol is very simple. The following is an example of a server program written in sh: #! /bin/sh read get docid echo "<TITLE>$docid</TITLE>" echo Here is the data The docid may have a trailing carriage return to be stripped off on some systems. You can modify that script to produce the data you actually want. The HTML syntax for marked-up text is fairly simple, but if you want just to send plain text, then just send the <.PLAINTEXT>. tag first: #! /bin/sh read get docid echo "<PLAINTEXT>" cat $docid When you have written your script, set the execute bit and then configure the inet daemon to run it . A few more examples:

A sh script to generate a menu for files in a directory
An awk script to generate menu from a list of files .
A perl script for all kinds of stuff on the ASIS server

If you know the perl language, then that is a powerful (if otherwise incomprehensible) language with which to hack together a server.

All contributions to these examples welcome!

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Tim BL