Writing an HTTP server is one of the most simple thing to do so. Also the
good thing is that there are tons of examples, for example this one:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/systems/library/es-nweb/

But yes, you can use a pre written server, however, if that is not
configured correctly that is not safer than the one programmed by yourself
in a wrong way.

Tamas



On 30 September 2012 16:56, V G <x.solarwind.x@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > It is very easy actually to do so, you just need to listen to a port
> (some
> > socket programming skills required), then you connect to the
> > http://local:<yourport>
> > from your browser and from the C program you simply print out HTML page=
s.
> > If you want to go fancy you can service AJAX requests too, and it makes
> > your program a very professional looking and feeling that way. It does
> not
> > make it portable though, however, with gcc you can easily port your app
> to
> > Win/Linux/Unix/Mac.
> >
>
>
> That approach presents many security vulnerabilities. It's also too much
> work for something that a tiny cgi-capable web server is designed to do.
> Also, by using CGI, your program uses standard STDIO and environment
> variables - can't get any easier than that.
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