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fooyc on Aug 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web server in one line of bash

Nice. However:

    $ curl localhost:8080 & curl localhost:8080
    <!doctype html>
    [...]
    curl: (7) Failed connect to localhost:8080; Connection refused

Yes, the server "restarts" after each request, and during the restart, it's not listening.

That's not what I would call a "server".

lambda on Aug 16, 2013 [–]

The socat version I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6224060 fixes this problem, but is a bit more cumbersome.

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