Minimal web server using netcat

Question

I\'m trying to set up a minimal web server using netcat (nc). When the browser calls up localhost:1500, for instance, it should show the result of a function (date

Answer 1

Another way to do this

while true; do (echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; echo -e "\n\tMy website has date function" ; echo -e "\t$(date)\n") | nc -lp 8080; done

Let's test it with 2 HTTP request using curl

In this example, 172.16.2.6 is the server IP Address.

Server Side

admin@server:~$ while true; do (echo -e 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n'; echo -e "\n\tMy website has date function" ; echo -e "\t$(date)\n") | nc -lp 8080; done

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: 172.16.2.6:8080 User-Agent: curl/7.48.0 Accept:
*/*

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: 172.16.2.6:8080 User-Agent: curl/7.48.0 Accept:
*/*

Client Side

user@client:~$ curl 172.16.2.6:8080

        My website has date function
        Tue Jun 13 18:00:19 UTC 2017

user@client:~$ curl 172.16.2.6:8080

        My website has date function
        Tue Jun 13 18:00:24 UTC 2017

user@client:~$

If you want to execute another command, feel free to replace $(date).