The very small blog

One of my side projects was about learning more about Tcp & streams. I implemented a "hello world" web server in Rust. I noticed I could get away with very little. The binary size, after small optimizations, ended up being only 300kB. That includes the pages, which are baked into the binary.

I since have been adding more small tricks to limit the size.

• Running in quirks mode - sending incomplete and technically invalid html, your browsers corrects the layout on your end for me
• Not reading your entire request - I could already start sending the response after reading the first line which contains GET / [..] - I only read a bit further to understand if you accept a gzip response
• Creating a header image from code instead of transfering an actual image
• Inlining an empty favicon to avoid a second http request, which would end up doubling my traffic!

Let's see what other ideas I will have in the future