Instead of speculating I decided to make some benchmarks that you can run on your own server, to see what’s the answer to that question in your case. I will also include the results of those tests that I got on my computer which are quite interesting. Preparing for tests First, what I did and … Read more
From the docs: The SimpleHTTPServer module has been merged into http.server in Python 3.0. The 2to3 tool will automatically adapt imports when converting your sources to 3.0. So, your command is python -m http.server, or depending on your installation, it can be: python3 -m http.server
There is no quick function access to getting/setting cookies, so I came up with the following hack: const http = require(‘http’); function parseCookies (request) { const list = {}; const cookieHeader = request.headers?.cookie; if (!cookieHeader) return list; cookieHeader.split(`;`).forEach(function(cookie) { let [ name, …rest] = cookie.split(`=`); name = name?.trim(); if (!name) return; const value = rest.join(`=`).trim(); … Read more
Since Java SE 6, there’s a builtin HTTP server in Sun Oracle JRE. The Java 9 module name is jdk.httpserver. The com.sun.net.httpserver package summary outlines the involved classes and contains examples. Here’s a kickoff example copypasted from their docs. You can just copy’n’paste’n’run it on Java 6+. (to all people trying to edit it nonetheless, … Read more
http-server for node.js is very convenient, and is a lot faster than Python’s SimpleHTTPServer. This is primarily because it uses asynchronous IO for concurrent handling of requests, instead of serialising requests. Installation Install node.js if you haven’t already. Then use the node package manager (npm) to install the package, using the -g option to install … Read more