Potato is an HTTP Server written in Elixir. Why is it called potato? Because... um... I stared it on a Friday night, I'm fried, anything fried goes with ketchup, I'm about to put ketchup on my hash browns, and my hash browns used to be a potato (probably many potatoes, but Potatoes is a dumb name for an HTTP server).
I won't be able to write a complete web server in one night, at least not something that parses HTTP requests, but maybe I can write something that listens on a port, accepts TCP connection requests, accepts a string, and replies. The phrase "Pucker up buttercup. " will be prepended to any string. That makes as much sense as naming this Potato.
- TCP Connections will be opened and closed on each request, which is inefficient, and using a GenServer for this purpose is totes overkill
- Code won't have meaningful comments tests or comments, as I don't understand the problem well enough to know how to test TCP ports
- Receiving messages with variable length using
:gen_tcp.recv(socket, 0)and messages longer than that wouldn't be handled correctly
- Decide how ConnectionSupervisor is called