Web Serving on My OS

[BrightLight]

Cool OS! But trying to download it from your site gives a 403 Forbidden error.

[onlyonemac]

Printing hello world, the hard way!

I think you just summed up OS Development.

At least for me, network programming is harder than OS development. It (including a server and a browser) is a high-priority for my OS nonetheless.

I'm still thinking about how I'm going to implement networking... it's not high on my priority list, but I want to make sure that I get it right when I do it... I'll probably start with client-side stuff though (like a web browser, email client, etc.) rather than server stuff.

[iansjack]

You have to start with a range of NIC drivers and a TCP/IP stack. That's the difficult part; everything else is fairly routine programming.

[SpyderTL]

You have to start with a range of NIC drivers and a TCP/IP stack. That's the difficult part; everything else is fairly routine programming.

When you put it that way, I'm kinda wondering why it took me like 6 months to get my first hello world response on a single VirtIO virtual network card.

EDIT: Make that 18 months... Man how time flies when you are reading specifications....

[iansjack]

I'm guessing it's because you were doing the difficult part.

If it takes you 6 (or 18) months to program a simple web server or client on an existing OS, such as Linux, I can only answer what my Mathematics professor said when asked a question (which we all thought was pretty difficult): "Mr ______, have you ever thought of taking up plumbing for a living?".

[Kazinsal]

I started writing a network stack on the bus during my commute. It seemed like a better use of time than sitting there bored.

I didn't have it running on my OS. Just a bunch of vtys and vim, and me typing out a whole lot of C. At best I'd see how it handles various captured and artificial input with userspace testing -- capture a real world packet in Wireshark, feed it into a test program for the stack, capture the output, toss it back into Wireshark, see if it looks right compared to a real world response.

[apamment]

Cool OS! But trying to download it from your site gives a 403 Forbidden error.

Thanks for letting me know, had the permissions on the file wrong (oops) Should work now.

[BrightLight]

Thanks for letting me know, had the permissions on the file wrong (oops) Should work now.

I'll try it now.

[onlyonemac]

Cool OS! But trying to download it from your site gives a 403 Forbidden error.

Thanks for letting me know, had the permissions on the file wrong (oops) Should work now.

Maybe you should host it on your own OS rather .

[apamment]

Maybe you should host it on your own OS rather .

Haha, well given my OS doesn't have permissions at all, that might work