[Haskell-cafe] CGI test

[Suleiman Souhlal]

Andrew Coppin wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> Can somebody write a trivial (as in: small) program so I can test my CGI 
> stuff without having to actually install and configure Apache?
> 
> (Basically, I'd like something I can compile into a small binary, so 
> when I double-click it, it will listen on port 80, and when it gets a 
> HTTP request, it tries to find a program with that name, and run it as a 
> CGI script. And that's all. Nothing fancy; if I want fancy Apache can do 
> a propper job...)
> 
> Actually, might be a useful thing to have in a library somewhere.
> 

About two years ago, I wrote a small httpd that I use to serve stuff. 
It's able to do CGI as well:

http://people.freebsd.org/~ssouhlal/stuff/rephttpd-0.4.hs

Feel free to do whatever you want with it (even though the code is not 
that great).

-- Suleiman