darkhttpd VS bashttpd

Compare darkhttpd vs bashttpd and see what are their differences.

darkhttpd

When you need a web server in a hurry. (by emikulic)

bashttpd

A web server written in bash (by avleen)
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darkhttpd bashttpd
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7.7 0.0
about 1 month ago over 4 years ago
C Shell
ISC License MIT License
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darkhttpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of darkhttpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

bashttpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of bashttpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-20.
  • [DISCUSSION] What if BASH could be used as a web server interpreter?
    3 projects | /r/bash | 20 Apr 2023
    I've had https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd/blob/master/bashttpd bookmarked for a while... not sure if it address:
  • Zig: The Modern Alternative to C
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2023
    In a way I feel that everything is an alternative to everything and at the same time nothing is.

    As you said it all depends on the circumstances. But I don't really see Zig competing with Go. They both can do mostly the same things, but they both approach them from quite a different sides.

    For example bash is being used in:

    - gaming (https://github.com/JosefZIla/bash2048)

    - web apps (https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd)

    - networking

    - CLIs

    - distributed systems (https://github.com/frameable/aviary.sh)

    - crypto (https://armedia.com/blog/blockchain-program-written-bash/ https://github.com/grondilu/bitcoin-bash-tools)

    - systems programming (https://github.com/damphat/kv-bash)

    - language tooling

    Some of those make more sense than others. However we all talk about a mythical general case. For every language there are niches that are covered by it more significantly. For Go it would probably be web backend. It doesn't mean it is only suited to this one niche, it is used in everything. In general it is used there more. I don't believe that Rust sees the most use in the same niche to the same order that Go sees it.

    Is Rust or Zig an alternative to php, awk or Lisp? In practice I don't really think so.

    I guess it all depends on one's definition of "alternative". I don't think that a statistical Go programmer would see Zig as a real alternative. Statistical C programmer might see it as a Go alternative, but that probably would not be a question he would ask.

  • Examples of cool || non-standard || "simply insane" bash stuff?
    7 projects | /r/bash | 29 Sep 2022
    https://github.com/avleen/bashttpd - httpd implementation in bash
  • Bashing the Bash – Replacing Shell Scripts with Python
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2022
  • Did you know? Perl is the tenth most in-demand programming language in 2021.
    4 projects | /r/perl | 4 Oct 2021
    Even bash, awk, and sed can do it.
  • An HTTP server in a single .c file
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing darkhttpd and bashttpd you can also consider the following projects:

Nginx - An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

Bash-web-server - A purely bash web server, no socat, netcat, etc...

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

awk-webserver - A simple webserver, written in GNU awk, that supports directory listing and download of file from the directory where it is launched

binserve - A fast production-ready static web server with TLS (HTTPS), routing, hot reloading, caching, templating, and security in a single-binary you can set up with zero code.

sed-httpd - HTTP daemon written in SED

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

uip - The historical uIP sources

winner - Winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest

stoneknifeforth - a tiny self-hosted Forth implementation

open_iot - ocpu

PiBluetoothMidSetup - Turn a raspberry pi into a Bluetooth Midi device