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A static web server written in COBOL
An hour with Claude produced a working web server in COBOL.
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Webbol is a minimal static web server written in COBOL with GnuCOBOL, produced in about an hour with Claude. It serves files from the current folder with MIME-type detection, proper status codes (200, 403, 404, 413), path-traversal protection and request logging. It has nearly 200 GitHub stars.
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- Hacker News: Spent an hour or so working with Claude to write a static web server in COBOLRepository account: jmsdnns
The COBOL source and how to run it.
- Hacker News discussion (4 points)HN submitter: jmsdnnsPosted