bash-web-server

Need to be clear that "full http server in pure bash" is incorrect. Bash cannot listen on a TCP/UDP socket for incoming connections. bash-web-server project builds a C language socket listener [0] that is dynamically loaded at run-time as a "built-in" module that makes the functionality available. [0] https://github.com/bahamas10/bash-web-server/tree/main/loada...

> As it turns out, bash can speak HTTP by itself. No, it can not. Bash lets you open TCP sockets. What you are doing here is trying to speak HTTP yourself, which is fine for testing and debugging, and hella cool for fun to do by hand, but you will shoot yourself in the foot if you try to use this pseudo http client unattended in reality. This toy code does not parse HTTP properly and will break. You could of course write a full http/1.1 client in bash, you can even do a full http server in pure bash: https://github.com/bahamas10/bash-web-server For less insane, non-bash shells there is always nc which is usually probably the wiser choice.