ZWS 1.2 review

ZWS is a simple Web server written in ZSH

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Adam Chodorowski

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ZWS is a simple Web server written in ZSH. ZWS project requires only a recent version of ZSH (4.2.0 or newer) and some common commands (specifically tr, cut, dd, sed, grep, file, basename, and dirname).

Here are some key features of "ZWS":
Requires only a recent version of ZSH and some common UNIX commands.
Supports HTTP/0.9 and a small subset of HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1:
Sends Date, Last-Modified and Content-Length header fields.
Supports resumed transfers, albeit with poor performance (sends Accept-Ranges and Content-Range fields, reads and parses the Range field).
Replaces printable characters escaped with %XX in URLs.
Does a simple check to dissallow reading files from outside the web root.
Optionally generates directory listings (with integreated search).

What's New in This Release:
This is mainly a bug extermination release.
Various other small improvements have been made.