Nicolas Martyanoff on Nostr: Writing an HTTP server / reverse proxy is easy. Make it actually useful for all kinds ...
Writing an HTTP server / reverse proxy is easy. Make it actually useful for all kinds of use cases is hard; so many small features.
For example people usually expect to be able to customize the response when a file cannot be served.
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