Braindead HTTP server

BraindeadServer.groovy

class BraindeadServer {

    int port
    private ServerSocket server
    String response

    void start() {
        server = new ServerSocket(port)
        byte[] buf = new byte[128]
        new Thread({->
            try {
                while (true) {
                    Socket conn = server.accept()
                    conn.inputStream.read(buf)
                    conn.outputStream.write("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\nContent-Length: ".bytes)
                    conn.outputStream.write(Integer.toString(response.length()).bytes)
                    conn.outputStream.write("\n\n".bytes)
                    conn.outputStream.write(response.bytes)
                    conn.close()
                }
            } catch (SocketException ex) {
                if (ex.message != 'Socket closed') {
                    ex.printStackTrace()
                }
            }
        } as Runnable, 'braindead server').start()
    }

    void stop() {
        server.close()
    }
}

A very very simple http server which will not even properly read the request; it just reads a bit then writes the preset response and closes the connection.

I wrote this just to test an axis2 client that was having problems parsing a response.

That syntax is freaking me out. It looks so much like Java… but the semicolons are missing!

Also, you might want to use \r\n in the future. HTTP seems to allow \n in media (RFC 2616, 3.7.1 Canonicalization and Text Defaults, second paragraph), but if you use it in the headers, you’re probably just lucky if the user agent accepts it.