Web servers enrolled in Pratchett tribute

[ispyisail]

Look like Eric is a Sir Terry Pratchett fan?

A long-running tribute to late fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett is being staged with the help of some of the web's servers.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31907768

http://www.gargoyle-router.com/gargoyle ... 8a7917e06c

[tapper]

I am very very happy about this. The first audio book i ever listened to wen i was just 9 was Johnny Maxwell Only You Can Save Mankind. I was hooked on his books from then on! I went on to read all the diskworld and wasted many a nite playing the mud game of diskworld to. He will be sadly mist by me.

[Eric]

Yes. Of course, it's Discworld, not Diskworld

I was listening to the audiobook of Going Postal when I wrote the first lines of code for Gargoyle. I often listen to audiobooks in the background while I write code. Going Postal is the Discworld book this little tribute references, and still my all-time favorite.

If you look at a couple of my other github repos, I have one or two where the default username/password combo is "Librarian"/"ookook"

I figure I indirectly control quite a few web servers, it's only 40 bytes and there's no performance penalty... so why not? Also notice the patch numbering.

Incidentally, on a more practical note, at the same time as I added this little tribute I migrated to uhttpd from the old, crusty httpd_gargoyle. httpd_gargoyle was kind of a hacky modification of mini_httpd I created ages ago because there was no option with https support in OpenWRT. uhttpd is a small web server now included with OpenWRT which is better in pretty much every way, so I took the opportunity to finally deprecate httpd_gargoyle. I suspect this will fix some of the infinite redirect problems several people have reported.

I've been meaning to migrate to uhttpd for a while, and I took this as an excuse to do it now, so any patch I added would not need to be redone later when I inevitably switched to uhttpd.

[ispyisail]

If you had a "like" button I would press it

[nworbnhoj]

+1