SuperIlu / httpDOS

Simple TLS capable HTTP server for MS-DOS

HTTPS Webserver for MS-DOS

This is a minimal HTTPS capable webserver for MS-DOS.

It is not in real working condition, it creates a "double fault" when exiting with CTRL-C (I guess some DOS memory is corrupted when running).

HTTP code was taken from https://github.com/starnight/MicroHttpServer TLS is provided by https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls TCP/IP stack is https://www.watt-32.net/ INI file reading is provided by https://github.com/rxi/ini

Quick start

• Run some kind of DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS, ???)
• Extract the release ZIP file to e.g. C:\HTTPDOS
• Load a packet driver for your network card (Packet drivers can e.g. be found on packetdriversdos.net or on crynwr.com or www.georgpotthast.de)
• Change to C:\HTTPDOS and run HTTPDOS.EXE
• Watch the output for the IP-address (the default WATTCP.CFG uses DHCP)
• Connect to https://<your ip address>/
• Allow the browser to connect to a site with a self-signed certificate
• Be amazed :)

Configuration

See HTTPDOS.INI for an example configuration.

Self signed certificate

You need to provide matching TLS/SSL certificates in order to run the server. Self signed certificates can be generated using genkeys.sh.

genkeys.sh, cert.conf and csr.conf were created following https://devopscube.com/create-self-signed-certificates-openssl/

NOISE.SYS

A random number generator can be obtained here: https://github.com/robrwo/noise.sys

License

Micro HTTP Server's code uses the BSD license, so httpDOS uses the same license. See LICENSE.md file.