Will not run on designated port

[code-monki]

Windows 11

Command:

winhttpd.exe "...." --addr "localhost" --port 10001

Description of Problem:

Server starts and reports it is listening on port 80, not 10001. Also fails to serve any pages.

Using localhost also returns a malformed addr error.

Using 127.0.0.1 results in a Windows firewall error and was part of a security issue due to the hosts /etc/hosts file being world-writable.

I am distributing the binary with a collection of web pages and need to be able to let the end-user access the pages on their local machine. Most of the users are not computer-savvy, hence the restriction. I am trying to use the following batch file to launch winhttpd in the background and the launch a browser instance pointing at the index.html in the webroot.

@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion

::Configuration
set "ADDRESS=localhost"
set "PORT=10001"
set "BINPATH=.\windows"
set "BINARY=winhttpd.exe"
set "WEBROOT=..\"
set "EXITSERVER=1"

echo Launching web server at http://%ADDRESS%:%PORT%

:: Start the server in background
start "" "%BINPATH%\%BINARY%" %WEBROOT% --addr %ADDRESS% --port %PORT%

:: Open default browser
start "" http://%ADDRESS%:%PORT%

::Wait loop
:wait_for_exit
echo .
echo Press CTRL+C to shut down the server
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 2 > nul
goto wait_for_exit

:: Cleanup
:shutdown
echo .
echo Attempting to shut down the server...

::Kill process based on PID
taskkill /IM winhttpd.exe /F /T
exit

I may well be doing something wrong in the batch file, but I get the errors above when I run the command listed from the command line.

[FmasterofU]

Hi @code-monki ,
Thanks for the detailed issue report.
In the following days I'll try to reproduce the issue and then I'll get back to you here.