Posted by shimmyshack on 03/30/07 15:15

On 30 Mar, 15:42, virtualade...@gmail.com wrote:
> The best idea I could come up with was to download a minimal httpd
> webserver written in a single C++ source file from here:http://www.muquit.com/muquit/software/mhttpd/mhttpd.html
> It doesn't handle PHP yet, but that could be coded in to it later.
> Once you have the bare bones of a webserver, it is just a matter of
> coding that into the DLL, along with a front end to code up webpages
> in cpp files. The idea is simple enough, to have a custom web
> server. But getting nice minimalistic code that translates to and
> from CPP, HTML, PHP, & CSS is hard. I think we would have to use the
> dynamic template model. CPP functions could have all the basic
> objects for templates the websites use in its memory, and know how to
> modify them. With the option of writing web based scripts directly in
> the CPP program. The hard part comes when you want to translate the
> entire language of PHP to CPP, and translate HTML, and especially CSS
> or javascript. The easy way to do it is to leave room for people to
> input their own scripts into the webserver, and to look at them as
> basic modifiable objects.
>
> What was the idea behind your project? Write me an e-mail at
> coreywh...@gmail.com if you ever catch wind of other projects out
> there that can do this. I like the CGI/C++ backend idea. I'll be
> looking into it today.

so corey/virtualade is just an elaborate way of getting people to
visit muquit.com, or do you just enjoy replying to your own posts?

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