Waiter

A simple HTTP gridserver built for serving gridsites. It handles caching and mime types out of the box and supports publishing using the HTTP PUT verb. And it is FAST.

Features

• Automatic cache control
• Serves .htmd files as text/plain on unsupported browsers
• Stable and fast
• Easy to use
• Fancy URLs
• Supports PUT for publishing files
  • Requires auth (HTTP Basic Auth) for PUT requests

Note:
Uploads are currently broken, because path canonicalization in Rust apparently fails if the path doesn't exist yet (while I expected it to just remove the ../ things from the path, even if the final path doesn't exist). Fixing this is a huge refactor, which I can't be bothered to do. Overwriting existing files does work (since the path already exists then), so yay!

Usage

Build the binary and run it in the directory containing the files to be served.