Today, I came across a whole bunch of methods to serve a single file or entire directory with other systems in our local area network via a web browser. I tested a couple methods in my Ubuntu test ...

Currently stop() only does m_socket.close(), it doesn't stop the task that was created to actually run the server. The public facing HttpServer class could hold onto the created task reference and ...

Im using the HttpServer class to implement a web ui for configuration. Sometimes the browser stucks on the middle of the request. I tracked the problem to: HttpParser::parse(Socket s) line 193: line = ...

Java Standard Edition (SE) 6 included support for Web services. This post begins a four-part series on Web services in Java SE by explaining what Web services are and overviewing Java SE’s support for ...

I have blogged before on the utility of the HttpServer provided with the Oracle HotSpot JVM. One of the general challenges associated with its use is the lack of documentation. Fortunately, its open ...