Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-07-09 Thread Jan Psota
[about web server embedded in dnsmasq] 1. I don't see the need. 2. ...but if Simon think about it, I would propose libmicrohttpd [http://www.gnu.org/s/libmicrohttpd/] I made some tests: 1. example http server running takes 272KB RAM (free - free), (second process didn't use any memory ;-) 2

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-07-01 Thread Ed W
> P.S. > I did have an (evil?) :D thought of investigating how I could go about > merging the two file source code within 'dnsmasq', but that will have wait > for now (Hardly any time) :) Given that Mongoose claims to be around 40KB (ie not entirely featherweight), what are you hoping to gain by i

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-07-01 Thread Ed W
On 29/06/2011 14:21, Jon Nelson wrote: >> LIGHTTPD: http://www.lighttpd.net/ > > After a fair bit of trouble with lighttpd, I cannot recommend it over Apache. > It's also not really in the "small, mostly embeddable" category. I think the modern conclusion is that nginx is smaller, faster and bett

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-06-29 Thread Jon Nelson
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:18 AM, Shantanu Gadgil wrote: > > - Boa/thttpd - Both small, but unmaintained for a while? - Monkeyd - very Boa isn't unmaintained -- there just haven't been any bugs in years. The author of thttpd also has a few much smaller httpd projects worth a look. > LIGHTTPD:

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-06-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 29.06.2011 09:18, schrieb Shantanu Gadgil: > > - Boa/thttpd - Both small, but unmaintained for a while? - Monkeyd - very > lightweight and pretty functional. Maintained. Appears to be the modern > ultra-micro webserver of choice? - nginx - Who would have thought it was > actually so small...

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-06-29 Thread Shantanu Gadgil
- Boa/thttpd - Both small, but unmaintained for a while? - Monkeyd - very lightweight and pretty functional. Maintained. Appears to be the modern ultra-micro webserver of choice? - nginx - Who would have thought it was actually so small... 380KB for a reasonably standard install, 260KB for a m

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-06-28 Thread Ed W
On 25/05/2011 16:11, Ed W wrote: > Now, the next question is perhaps, what is the lightest weight and most > dependency free simply http server? For example I have a server that I > want to add to the ntp pool and one of their requests is that any http > request to that IP is responded to with a r

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-26 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 25.05.2011 17:11, schrieb Ed W: > I can think of busybox's server. Probably there are some trivial perl > scripts (but I would want to hear they weren't exploitable...). Any > other ideas for a trivial lightweight http server? Minimal logging, 301 > redirects and static file serving being the

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-25 Thread Jon Nelson
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Ed W wrote: > On 25/05/2011 14:31, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Shantanu Gadgil >> wrote: >>> I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. >>> >>> The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has >>> HTTP support (

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-25 Thread Ed W
On 25/05/2011 14:31, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Shantanu Gadgil > wrote: >> I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. >> >> The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has >> HTTP support (syslinux-4.10-pre14+) to load the kernel and initrd ima

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-25 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Shantanu Gadgil wrote: > I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. > > The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has > HTTP support (syslinux-4.10-pre14+) to load the kernel and initrd images There are already plenty of lightweight embedded web s

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-25 Thread Shantanu Gadgil
Sent: Wed, May 25, 2011 5:20:33 PM Subject: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has HTTP support (syslinux-4.10-pre14+) to load the kernel and initrd images This is more of

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-05-25 Thread Shantanu Gadgil
I am a fan of dnsmasq and use it a lot. The web-server idea doesn;t sound half-bad, now that PXELINUX has HTTP support (syslinux-4.10-pre14+) to load the kernel and initrd images This is more of a "me too" email from me. Maybe not immediately but soon enough ?!? :) :) Regards, Shantanu

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-01-27 Thread Simon Kelley
Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: > Hello, > > I had this idea while trying to consolidate my PXE net-install machine > using dnsmasq instead of ISC-DHCPD, TFTPD, and BIND, which I used before. > > I still had to run a web server (yeah, I know there are plenty of small > ones), so for such use c

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-01-27 Thread Christ Schlacta
do like this idea, hope it gets approved! On 1/26/2011 14:38, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: Hello, I had this idea while trying to consolidate my PXE net-install machine using dnsmasq instead of ISC-DHCPD, TFTPD, and BIND, which I used before. I still had to run a web server (yeah, I kn

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-01-26 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
There's no synergism between dnsmasq existing functions and an http server. Just run a separate tiny web server. TFTP, DHCP, and DNS are all very closely intertwined, HTTP isn't unless you're wanting to serve up printouts of the DNS cache. 2011/1/26 Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu > Hello, > > I h

[Dnsmasq-discuss] [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

2011-01-26 Thread Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
Hello, I had this idea while trying to consolidate my PXE net-install machine using dnsmasq instead of ISC-DHCPD, TFTPD, and BIND, which I used before. I still had to run a web server (yeah, I know there are plenty of small ones), so for such use cases it would be great if dnsmasq had a small web