[Info-vax] A light WEB server in C

[Mark Daniel]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> CY wrote:
>> On 9 Jan, 00:58, Steven Schweda <sms.antin... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>    I'm confused.  So, you've written the world's smallest Web
>>> server, and now you want to write the world's smallest Web
>>> browser?  Or what?
>>
>> No, a small server app that one can connect to and that accept a
>> numeric input, my question was about accepting the input from the
>> client
>> and NO I didnt write the client, both IE and opera comes pre intealled
>> on my phone
>>
>> //CY
> 
> It wasn't clear why something like WASD wasn't possible.
> That way you get all HTTP/CGI/whatever things running
> out of the box and your "small server app" gets much easier
> to write.

If you really want to have a play from first principles then you need to 
understand basic TCP/IP programming (you seem to have your example 
listener code).

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_sockets

The fundamental protocol of the Web

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP

And overviews of a slew of related technologies

   http://www.w3schools.com/

Of course there are a myriad of of on-line and printed resources 
accumulated over the now nearly two decades of the existence of Web.

Donate annually

   http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en

I, and many I know, do (it's refreshing to see no ads, textual or 
otherwise).