minimalist web server

[MonkeeSage]

On Dec 2, 10:13 pm, "Daniel Fetchinson" <fetchin... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> > > The reason I need this is that my current best strategy to avoid ads in
> > > web pages is putting all ad server names into /etc/hosts and stick my
> > > local ip number next to them (127.0.0.1) so every ad request goes to my
> > > machine. I run apache which has an empty page for 404 errors so I'll
>
> > In this case, do you need a webserver at all? If your browser tries to
> > access a web server on 127.0.0.1 and there isn't one, won't the result,
> > in most cases, be more or less the same as if the server returned a 404?
>
> Not quite, because if the browser doesn't get a response from the
> server it will keep trying for a while and will only give up after
> that. And then will display a "server not found, blablablabla" message
> depending on the browser, which will appear in place of every ad.
> That's ugly and it's better to have an empty page.
>
> Concerning the python solutions posted by several guys, they are too
> heavyweight compared to a ~ 1-3 hundred lines of C code that one can
> obtain from cheetah's source code.

Then use those lines of source, heh. No need to try to force python to
fit every problem. If you have a solution that works better in some
other language, then use it; we won't be angry. :)

Regards,
Jordan