Danny Arends: DaNode - A home made web server in D

Danny Arends is going expand on his lightning talk he gave at the D conference on his web server, "DaNode". The abstract of the talk is:

I will present my experiences developing and running a home made web server written in D. My personal website www.dannyarends.nl (http://www.dannyarends.nl/) and other domains have been powered by the D language for almost 4 years now. The web server called DaNode is written from scratch and serves my personal and work related HTTP needs and wishes.

Web applications for DaNode can be written in any language. Currently, DaNode provides API's for D, PHP, The R language, Perl and Python. It is designed as a loosely coupled system where UNIX pipes and files are used to communicate with externally running processes.

I wanted to have the ability to serve different domains, use different programming languages and be in control from request to response. Another focus is using only minimal computational power, since I am paying for the cloud instance.

Recently I added HTTPS support and Server Name Indication (SNI) to the server by using the Deimos OpenSSL wrapper, allowing DaNode to serve multiple SSL certificates from a single IPv4 address.

Find the project on Github: http://github.com/DannyArends/DaNode
See it in action: http://www.dannyarends.nl (http://www.dannyarends.nl/)

As always we will have both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available and time for discussions after the talk.