Simple Redirecting Webserver in a bash script

http-redir-bash-server.md

Purpose

I need to have very simple, lightweight service that always redirects to another URL. No request parsing is needed so there should be no security risk.

Resources

• https://www.debian-administration.org/article/371/A_web_server_in_a_shell_script
• http://www.w3.org/Provider/ShellScript.html

The server implementation

echo "HTTP/1.1 302 Found"
echo "Location: http://www.example.com"
echo
echo

Registering the service in inetd

service myredir
{
        disable = no
        port            = 80
        flags           = IPv6
        socket_type     = stream
        wait            = no
        user            = root
        server          = /root/myredir.sh
        server_args     = --daemon
        log_on_failure  += USERID
}