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How does this differ from the cgi-bins of yesteryear?

Also, regarding environment sandboxing: it's probably worth looking at the direction the CGI spec went in.

It depends where you draw the line. CGI's were passed many variables and an environment by the web server. In that respect, this is closer to a web server - the only thing it doesn't handle is the very lowest level network listening.

>the only thing it doesn't handle is the very lowest level network listening.

Which makes it a bit imprecise to call it a web server made with bash (as it requires netcat). I clicked on the title already wondering how would it be possible to open a socket with bash only.

I think you're being a little overly pedantic.

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