[Dnsmasq-discuss] Re : [suggestion] tiny embedded web server

[Vincent Cadet]

>De : Christ Schlacta <lists at aarcane.org>
>
>do like this idea, hope it gets approved!
>
>On 1/26/2011 14:38, Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu wrote: 
...
>>I still had to run a web server (yeah, I know there are         plenty of small 
>
>>ones), so for such use cases it would be great         if dnsmasq had a small 
>>web server embedded that would be able to         serve static content from a 
>>directory if configured to do so,         similar to the TFTP server that is 
>>already in.
>>
>>
>>What do you guys think about this?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Cristi

It is not a good idea as it is against UNIX philosophy, mostly. (I.e. do a 
program that does one task but does it really well.)

Embedding a web server in an IP address managing software (forgive me this rough 
simplification) is inappropriate. DNSmasq embeds a DHCP, DNS and TFTP server 
because these are services that closely relate with each other and dnsmasq does 
its task really well. A web server is best handled by an application designed to 
be a web server. Both are domains of application that have not enough in common 
to merge them all. You might need a dedicated web service for your needs, such 
as lighttpd or nginx.

Vince C.