[adamrezich]

Very cool! I was working on something similar at one point, but I sort of gave up on it when I wanted to move it from the "toy server that works on localhost" stage to something that I could actually deploy in the wild. I got overwhelmed by decision paralysis for how to proceed: should I just use a reverse proxy? Or should I rewrite my backend code to be some kind of plugin for some existing server software? If so, what kind of plugin, and for which software?

It's very inspirational to see that you've just said screw it, I'm going to host my own HTTPS server, and also hey reddit, do your worst, try to break it. Now I want to work on my similar project again.

For anyone similarly inspired, but who doesn't know where to begin making an HTTP server, check out this excellent tutorial that walks you through everything you need to make an HTTP/1.0 server, and then grow it to handle HTTP/1.1: https://www2.cs.uh.edu/~gnawali/courses/cosc6377-f12/p1/http...