Hi,

I know there are many different web servers out there. The best open source one is, of course, Apache and I like using a variety of freeware servers for Windows. However, I am interested in programming a simple web server in Visual Basic.

I know Visual Basic produces quite bloated code, say, in comparison to x86 assembly (lol), but I find this the easiest language to code Windows GUI applications with.

I've thought about it and I've figured that I need to use the Winsock control and listen on port 80 for requests. I think all it needs to be able to do is the /GET command for now but I'm unsure when it comes to MIME types. In fact, I don't really have any idea what they mean...

So, does anyone know how I could program a simple web server that serves static HTML pages (for now) and other file types?

Thanks in advance,

James