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CocoaHTTPServer
Objective-C2012–2018
robbiehanson / CocoaHTTPServer

CocoaHTTPServer

A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications

4Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
5.6KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-12-02 15:37:10 UTC to 2018-11-07 23:00:07 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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There is also: https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaHTTPServer This works on Cocoa an iOS and supports: - Built in support for bonjour broadcasting - IPv4 and IPv6 support - Asynchronous networking using GCD and standard sockets - Password protection support - SSL/TLS encryption support - Extremely FAST and memory efficient - Extremely scalable (built entirely upon GCD) - Heavily commented code - Very easily extensible - WebDAV is supported too! (Not the author, just a user).
In HTTPKit — A lightweight HTTP server framework for Objective-C

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