Course of Raku / Functional, concurrent, reactive, and web programming / Web programming / A simple HTTP server / Exercises
A hello server
Problem
Write a program that listens on 127.0.0.1 port
8080 and, in a loop, accepts connections —
printing a client connected each time a client arrives.
This is the shape of a real server, which keeps accepting clients rather
than stopping after one.
Run this on your own machine and connect to
127.0.0.1:8080(for example with a browser) to trigger it. Stop it with Ctrl-C.
Example
Each time a client connects, the program prints:
a client connected