Thank you for the link, but my approach is neither "half-assed" nor "voodoo". I've used netcat, as described, for a small project, and it worked well. I'm about to do the same, for a big project, and I expect that it will again work well. Standard webservers are bloated. Speed, security and stability can be enhanced by distributing work across a system of one-shot processes. I take some inspiration from Jef Poskanzer's design decisions in thttpd.

http://acme.com/software/thttpd

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

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