Let's build a simple HTTP server with Ruby

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Code builds a working but minimal HTTP server in Ruby using the stdlib Socket class it binds to port 5000 accepts connections with TCPServer reads full requests via readpartial parses the request line and headers into a hash serves files from a server root and even executes an executable .rb file the implementation returns 200 or 404 as plain HTTP strings is explicitly non spec compliant and remains vulnerable to path traversal attack so use Socket class for learning and Rack for production.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:48About me
3. 2:00What is the Internet
4. 3:30What is HTTP
5. 4:27HTTP specification
6. 5:30URL syntax
7. 9:40Socket
8. 11:54Server
9. 18:15Send response
10. 19:24Respond with
11. 21:36Response class
12. 27:14Demo
13. 28:10Execute a Ruby file
14. 28:43Modify the response parser
15. 30:43Missing features
16. 31:18Path traversal attack

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