Comment by 🐦 wasolili
Re: "Map hostnames to strings in config?"
bash doesn't allow . in variables, but you could parse the config up front to build an associative array.
— https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Arrays.html
after you build the hostmap associative array and parse the hostname out of the request you'd be able to do something like ${hostmap["$hostname"]} to access it
2025-02-17 · 1 year ago
Original Post
Map hostnames to strings in config? — Earlier today I wrote a post about a Nex server I wrote in bash (it doesn't have networking, but it will take input and respond to it the same way a Nex server would respond if it had gotten that input via TCP, which means if you make it accessible over a network by running something like "nc -lk 1900 -e ./script" it'll work as a regular Nex server), and I thought maybe I could try modifying the code to support the Spartan protocol. The Spartan protocol...