Web Serving on My OS

apamment · **Joined:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:02 pm **Posts:** 28

I just wanted to share this, as it's exciting to me hehe.

When I started OS development I wanted to have something that could host a web page, and be self hosting.

Well although the TCP/IP stack is a little funky and sends packets in the wrong order (this is proving to be a tough nut to crack) it works well enough to send a web page.

Now I just need an editor and to port GCC, binutils and NASM.

max · **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:17 am

AWESOME WORK! Like that a lot

SpyderTL · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 1074

Congrats! I have a screenshot of my first "Hello, World!" web page response from my OS around here somewhere. I know the feeling.

You should post this over on the "AHHH YEAH!!" thread.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=27692

onlyonemac · **Joined:** Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:59 pm **Posts:** 1146

Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

Roman · **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2016 1:01 pm

onlyonemac wrote:

Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

As I understand, the guest system (Quinn) runs a web server, the host system (GNU/Linux with GNOME?) connects to it.

Kazinsal · **Joined:** Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:38 pm **Posts:** 558

onlyonemac wrote:

Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

There is a Firefox window open displaying plain text content served from an HTTP server on a LAN. The content is "It works! Yay!". The OP's operating system is running in a VirtualBox instance in the foreground, acting as the web server. The operating system's console is displaying a log from the boot sequence as well as a log of served HTTP requests. In order, they are a 200 for a GET request to the root of the website, a 404 for a GET request to the directory "bob", and another 200 for a GET request to the root. The OS has a graphical interface with monospace and proportional font rendering.

SpyderTL · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 1074

onlyonemac wrote:

Would anyone care to describe the picture? (If it's worthwhile...)

This took me a second to figure out what you were asking, and why you were asking it.

Inside VirtualBox, he has a graphical desktop with a wallpaper showing what appear to be two trains inside of some sort of building or factory, in grayscale, with two applications running. In the bottom right corner is a "Launcher" application with three buttons: Clock, File Manager and Memory Info.

The other application is a console window, with what looks like the default VGA font, but has some color text, and a very large "Q U I N N" title in some other font, so the console application appears to support switching fonts from one character to the next. He also has a large "cartoon"-esque mouse pointer.

onlyonemac · **Joined:** Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:59 pm **Posts:** 1146

Funny how everyone describes something different, and between all of them I can put together an idea of what the picture looks like...

What is the text in the console?

BASICFreak · **Posted:** Wed Jan 27, 2016 4:13 pm

onlyonemac wrote:

What is the text in the console?

Code:

Found PCI devices
Found ATA Drive 0GB - VBOX HARDDISK
Found ATAPI Drive 0GB - VBOX CD-ROM
FAT FS: Fat16
VFS: Registered disk0
Found 1 IDE controllers::
ETHER: Found i825xx Ethernet Controller MAC 8:0:27:90:fd:ab IRQ 10
Found ramdisk @ 0x2c7000 size 209(BLOCKED BY CURSUR)
FAT FS: Fat12
VFS: Registered ramdisk
VFS: Registered console
QUINN INIT
Interface UP!
Setting wallpaper...
QUINN User Shell
NoDevice$ disk0:
disk0:/$ wwwserver 192.168.56.2
[17:18][192.168.56.1][200] /
[17:18][192.168.56.1][404] /bob/
[17:19][192.168.56.1][200] /

apamment · **Joined:** Thu Aug 20, 2015 9:02 pm **Posts:** 28

Sorry, I should have described my image in the first post, didn't even think about it.

SpyderTL · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 1074

apamment wrote:

Sorry, I should have described my image in the first post, didn't even think about it.

onlyonemac just happens to be (very nearly) blind, so it's really just for him.

Edit: I just realized that the "What does your OS look like" thread would be completely useless to onlyonemac. Anyone want to go through and "describe" every screenshot in that thread?

onlyonemac · **Joined:** Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:59 pm **Posts:** 1146

Oh right, I get it... So he's running an HTTP server on is OS in a VirtualBox instance with IP address 192.168.56.2, and accessing served pages from a web browser on the host machine, IP address 192.168.56.1? Sounds cool!

Muazzam · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2016 5:16 am

Printing hello world, the hard way!

SpyderTL · **Joined:** Sun Sep 19, 2010 10:05 pm **Posts:** 1074

Muazzam wrote:

Printing hello world, the hard way!

I think you just summed up OS Development.

Muazzam · **Posted:** Thu Jan 28, 2016 7:14 am

SpyderTL wrote:

Muazzam wrote:

Printing hello world, the hard way!

I think you just summed up OS Development.

At least for me, network programming is harder than OS development. It (including a server and a browser) is a high-priority for my OS nonetheless.

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