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Shortfin is a very fast and lightweight open-source web server that serves static content only.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2013-08-06 · latest 2013-08-06

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  1. …through the code quickly, there's barely any error handling. HTTP parsing is not compliant either. https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin/blob/master/src/respon... I am not sure what's the point of using it instead of nginx.
    comment by halayli · 2013-08-06 · in A fast and static web server for serving web apps
  2. The request parsing code seems to be of dubious quality https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin/blob/master/src/reques... From a cursory glance: 1. https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin/blob/master/src/reques... should be (data_len - i >= 4)…
    comment by c-a · 2013-08-06 · in A fast and static web server for serving web apps
  3. "Provide an install tarball and provide a checksum of it that we can verify." https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin My point was the people who are going to blindly run curl/sh commands are also going to blindly download the source tarball…
    comment by tlrobinson · 2013-08-06 · in A fast and static web server for serving web apps
  4. …is 312KB as linked from here, so it's pretty compact, possibly suitable for embedding in apps, etc: https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin
    comment by grey-area · 2013-08-06 · in A fast and static web server for serving web apps