LEAR
Infrastructure
web server
SHOW HN2018
66points
32comments
#642of 2,155 in 2018
Top 30%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Simplicity makes it a promising project to follow
From 2 comments
I think what's missing from this is "Show HN". I don't think anybody is suggesting it be used in place of NGINX or H2O - not yet.
tjpnz on HNThis would be very useful for performance testing
guidedlight on HN
Objections
Not ready for production; lacks HTTPS and security review
From 2 comments
I agree, I don't claim it's ready Please, treat it as interesting project to follow that has just started, and is surely not meant to be deployed in production environments, at…
mbien on HNWas one of the first things I thought as well. Looking at the github page I'm wondering how it performs compared to something like nginx. Since I won't use something without…
BlackLotus89 on HN
Performance claims unproven; no benchmarks yet
From 2 comments
Any benchmarks?
matte_black on HNIt's great to see people still using C to make web servers ! But can you clarify what are the "state-of-the-art technologies and solutions?" I just skim the project and think…
quangio on HN
Missing tests and documentation
From 2 comments
Kind of off topic but it doesn’t look like there are any tests in this repo. Is that common in the open source C community? I see several people suggesting benchmarks but what…
haney on HN... or indeed publicfile. * http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/guide/httpd.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-accept.html…
JdeBP on HN
Possible HTTP header parsing bug and directory traversal concern
From 2 comments
If you're looking for low-hanging-fruit to optimise, there's a ton of "foo = create_string(<some constant>)" and then "delete_string(foo)" not long afterwards in the code. I also…
userbinator on HNWhy? Performance doesn't matter for that use-case. Maybe less features means more secure, on the other hand established projects (or even the basic HTTP implementations in other…
detaro on HN
Requests
Add benchmarks against nginx
From 3 comments
Was one of the first things I thought as well. Looking at the github page I'm wondering how it performs compared to something like nginx. Since I won't use something without…
BlackLotus89 on HNAny benchmarks?
matte_black on HNYou can use `ab`. I'll post an issue about that.
CapacitorSet on HN
Add HTTPS support
From 1 comment
https is one of the first features I'd like to implement in the near future :) Do you know if there is some framework that I could test my server with, against eg. nginx? I was…
mbien on HN
Add functional tests and manual pages
From 2 comments
Kind of off topic but it doesn’t look like there are any tests in this repo. Is that common in the open source C community? I see several people suggesting benchmarks but what…
haney on HN... or indeed publicfile. * http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/guide/httpd.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-accept.html…
JdeBP on HN
Questions
Why use a multiprocess architecture instead of multithreaded
From 1 comment
Why use a multiprocess architecture instead of a multithreaded one?
Traubenfuchs on HN
What are the advantages over nginx or H2O
From 1 comment
- What are the advantages of using this over something more established such as Nginx or H2O? - README mentioned "fully non-blocking architecture," this only refers to network…
continuations on HN
Alternatives named
nginx
From 2 comments
- What are the advantages of using this over something more established such as Nginx or H2O? - README mentioned "fully non-blocking architecture," this only refers to network…
continuations on HNWhy not to use Nginx for this task?
StreamBright on HN
H2O
From 1 comment
- What are the advantages of using this over something more established such as Nginx or H2O? - README mentioned "fully non-blocking architecture," this only refers to network…
continuations on HN
Lwan
From 1 comment
It's great to see people still using C to make web servers ! But can you clarify what are the "state-of-the-art technologies and solutions?" I just skim the project and think…
quangio on HN
publicfile
From 1 comment
... or indeed publicfile. * http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/guide/httpd.html * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/guide/tcp-socket-accept.html…
JdeBP on HN
Filed
From 1 comment
In this same vein is Filed, it does the minimal amount of work possible before handing off to the kernel to sendfile() the static resource. http://filed.rkeene.org/
rkeene2 on HN