http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:27:35 GMT DZone Snippets: http code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3475 An interpretation of <a href="http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OneTimeWebServer">OneTimeWebServer</a> in Ruby. OneTimeWebServer holds a single "page" in memory, serves it to the first visitor, and evaporates. Useful for all sorts of hijinks. <br /> <br /><code> <br />#!/usr/local/bin/ruby <br />require 'socket' <br />t = STDIN.read <br />while s = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', (ARGV[0] or 8080)).accept <br /> puts s.gets <br /> s.print "HTTP/1.1 200/OK\rContent-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n" + t <br /> s.close <br /> exit <br />end <br /></code> <br /> <br />Usage: <br /> <br /><code> <br />echo "test" | ./otws.rb [optional port number, defaults to 8080] <br /></code> <br /> <br />Or for recursive fun: <br /> <br /><code> <br />cat otws.rb | ./otws.rb [optional port number, defaults to 8080] <br /></code> <br /> Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:45:38 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/3475 jnewland (Jesse Newland)