svenstaro/miniserve

[Feature Request] Simple CGI for bash script

thenoobtester opened this issue · 4 comments

thenoobtester commented

Hi there,

awesome mini http/https server, I'm always looking for stuff like this when python -m SimpleHTTPServer is not good enough. One feature which would really be the cherry on the cake is some simple CGI for bash scripts to do some quick processing server-side and return some data.

Thank you for considering this in a future release if it's not too much as I have no idea how much work that would entail.

Kindest regards

mailq commented

I'd vote against it.
Because that would make miniserve a fully fledged web-server like nginx or apache.
Instead I would advice to have a look into shell2http which is exactly the tool to serve scripts. You can still use both tools in parallel, each doing the thing they are designed for.

svenstaro commented

I'm also against this. This would make security in miniserve so much harder and also it would make this not so mini anymore since now it's more like a fully fledged application server. I think at this point you should indeed be looking at other software entirely.

svenstaro commented

That said, thank you a lot of the feature suggestion, I certainly do not want to sound too dismissive here and I'm usually pretty lenient about features coming in but sometimes I do have to stay the course of this being a small and obvious server for serving files over HTTP.

I hope it's fine for you. :)

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thenoobtester commented

Thank you for the answers and sorry for the delay, I have been very busy and lost track of this :)