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A quick and hacky HTTP server in Julia to execute Julia, which gets around the 
startup and JIT delays when running Julia scripts from the command line.

server.jl

using HttpServer

info("loading Gadfly...")
tic()
using Gadfly
toc()

info("JIT warmup...")
tic()
draw(SVG("output_0.svg", 6inch, 3inch), plot([sin, cos], 0, 25))
toc()

http = HttpHandler() do req::Request, res::Response
  try
    io = IOBuffer()
    r = eval(parse(UTF8String(req.data)))
    show(io, r)
    return Response(takebuf_string(io))
  catch err
    println("Connection ended with error: $err")
  end
  return Response("Success")
end
http.events["error"]  = (client, err) -> println(err)
http.events["listen"] = (saddr) -> println("Running on https://$saddr (Press CTRL+C to quit)")

server = Server( http )
run(server, host=IPv4(127,0,0,1), port=8111)