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redbean
single-file distributable web server

redbean makes it possible to share web applications that run offline as an single-file αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε zip archive which contains your assets. All you need to do is download the redbean.com program below, change the filename to .zip, add your content in a zip tool like Windows 10 or InfoZIP, and change the extension back to .com.

redbean can serve 1 million+ gzip encoded responses per second on a cheap personal computer. That performance is thanks to zip and gzip using the same compression format, which enables kernelspace copies. Another reason redbean goes fast is that it's a tiny static binary, which makes fork memory paging nearly free.

redbean is also easy to modify to suit your own needs. The program itself is written as a single .c file.

download  

redbean-2021-02-25.com
200kb - PE+ELF+MachO+ZIP+SH

redbean-2021-02-25.com.dbg
2.2m - ELF debugger data (optional)

redbean.c
source code

features

• HTTP v1.1
• Content-Encoding
• Range / Content-Range
• Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since

installation

curl https://justine.lol/redbean/redbean-latest.com >redbean.com
chmod +x redbean.com
bash -c './redbean.com -vv'

usage

echo '&ltb>hello&lt/b>' >index.html
zip redbean.com index.html
./redbean.com -vv
curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8080/index.html

details

Assets can be listed by running the following command:

unzip -vl redbean.com        # lists files

Assets can be added to the zip archive as follows:

zip redbean.com index.html   # adds file

By default, anything you add to the archive gets compressed. Sometimes you don't want that to happen. A good example is video files. The web browser will want to send HTTP range requests to seek in the video, in which case redbean requires that the asset be uncompressed.

zip -0 redbean.com video.mp4  # adds file without compression

Each connection uses a point in time snapshot of your ZIP file. If your ZIP is deleted then serving continues. If it's replaced then issuing SIGUSR1 (or SIGHUP if daemon) will reindex the zip for subsequent connections without interrupting active ones. If SIGINT or SIGTERM is issued then a graceful shutdown is started but if it's issued a second time, active connections are reset.

flags

-h	help
-v	verbosity
-d	daemonize
-s	uniprocess
-m	log messages
-c INT	cache seconds
-r /X=/Y	redirect X to Y
-l ADDR	listen ip [default 0.0.0.0]
-p PORT	listen port [default 8080]
-L PATH	log file location
-P PATH	pid file location
-U INT	daemon set user id
-G INT	daemon set group id
-B STR	changes server header

benchmark

$ wrk -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' -t 12 -c 120 \
  http://127.0.0.1:8080/tool/net/redbean.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8080/tool/net/redbean.html
  12 threads and 120 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   745.49us    8.79ms 406.77ms   99.54%
    Req/Sec    96.60k     6.10k  123.66k    77.36%
  11631210 requests in 10.10s, 7.96GB read
Requests/sec: 1151621.71
Transfer/sec:    807.23MB

see also

justine's web page
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Written by Justine Tunney
jtunney@gmail.com

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