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Used the heck out of thttpd back in the day. Lots of fond memories!

Me too! I used one instance of thttpd for each virtual host on my machine, with haproxy routing towards them.

The idea being that I could chroot them, and have a different UID for each site, for security.

I had to patch it to add IPv6 support to the X-Forwarded-For header, if I recall correctly.

Attack of the Repo Men is a fun story.

https://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html

I think Jef was the original author of the excellent PBM image-conversion utilities: https://acme.com/software/pbmplus/

They're still usable, but the netpbm project has expanded upon Jef's work: http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/

This gives me a different impression of the Methodists than I had:

https://acme.com/jef/religion_sex/

I always liked the way he formatted his C code - opening and closing braces on indented on line by themselves, the code inside the braces indented the same amount. Appealed to my Python side, long before I ever saw Python.

Wrote a lot of code that way, wish that style had caught on.

Surprisingly no mention of RFC-8555 (Automated Certificate Management Environment, the Let's Encrypt protocol) under "Other ACMEs on the Web" :D

It appears the ACME Portable Hole is no longer available.

thttpd appeared here 7 weeks ago, which had me reminiscing about running a web server with 96,000 IP addresses https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664466

My most-coveted domain name for the past 2.5 decades.

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