Stand-alone Web-application?

Sure it is possible -- if you can write an OS with C, you can write a web server and application. It'll just be a lot more work.

Sure it is possible -- if you can write an OS with C, you can write a web server and application. It'll just be a lot more work. Here's an example C web server with only 200 lines of code.

– Majid Fouladpour Jan 15 '10 at 17:18 Posted an example link.It only servers static pages however, so you might need to google for something a bit more robust. – Kaleb Brasee Jan 15 '10 at 17:21 Thanks Kaleb. Will try it.

– Majid Fouladpour Jan 15 '10 at 17:28 For . Net, it might work to use the new IIS Express webserver: weblogs.asp. Net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/… – David Jan 15 '10 at 20:51.

Sure you could write one yourself. The HTTP protocol is vast but you don't have to be a fully compliant web server to run your own application. The C application would have to listen to requests on whatever port you decide to run the server at (default 80).

There are various request methods in HTTP, but at a minimum you would have to implement GET, or maybe even POST but that aspect you can control since its your web application. Here's an example of a basic request that you C program should parse: GET /index. Html HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com And return a response with the requested content and response headers, such as: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:34 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.3.7 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT Etag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 438 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 I may have already mentioned this but the HTTP protocol is really vast.

Browsers with varying capabilities could access the site, and you would have to respond accordingly. Having said that, since it's all under your control, you could start small with perhaps a small subset of the requests/headers you'd like to handle, single-threaded, one request at a time, etc. And then build it out from there. Like Kaleb said if C can be used in OS's and spaceships, then we can definitely write a web and application server with it :).

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