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by knewter 950 days ago
You could serve your qbasic website from an old Android phone in a drawer my dude.
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Not with BabaBASIC (for now?). No networking support whatsoever :P
Fairly certain jamon can wire in some io, let me nerd snipe in peace plz
My apologies. BabaBASIC is here to make any Android-related anachronistic dream come true (˃̣̣̥ w ˂̣̣̥).
I think I have a general idea on how to implement basic TCP/IP sockets while staying true to QBasic 4.5's spirit (i.e. not introducing functions like _OpenConnection/_ConnectionAddress etc.)

The "API" I have in mind would look something like

```

OPEN "TCP:\127.0.0.1\80\LISTEN" FOR INPUT AS #1 INPUT #1, CONN$ IF CONN$ <> "" REM CONN$ contains something like "TCP:\127.0.0.1\80\REMOTE_HOST\REMOTE_PORT" OPEN CONN$ AS #2

  REM ... respond to request
  PRINT #2, "200 OK"
  CLOSE #2
END IF

```

Don't tempt me.
Ugh, jamon51, I think we slashdotted your website