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MacOS Web Server written entirely in ARM64 assembly
523 starsAssembly
Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
by imtomt·May 10, 2026·430 points·227 comments
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Hand-rolled ARM64 assembly server with range requests and slowloris mitigation.
Strengths
- •Syscall-only implementation with no libc dependencies shows deep systems knowledge.
- •Implements complex HTTP features like range requests and percent-decoding manually.
- •Smart path traversal detection handles edge cases like double-dots in filenames.
Weaknesses
- •macOS-only with significant tweaks needed for Linux portability.
- •Static file serving limits utility compared to modern dynamic servers.
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Target Audience
Systems programmers and assembly enthusiasts
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thttpd · darkhttpd · micro-httpd
Post Description
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and supports Range: bytes=X-Y headers (which allows scrubbing for video streaming). It decodes percent-encoded URLs, strictly enforces docroot, serves custom error pages for any HTTP error response, supports directory listing, and has (some) mitigations against slowloris-like attacks.
I’ve also written a more detailed writeup here: https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/
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