From 17a26ea297d47445d3a3592ebd9b087daf956a6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Cruanes Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 09:49:52 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] doc: add readme --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c3595d9e..76607fe3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ Why not? If you just want a super basic local server (perhaps for exposing data from a local demon, like Cups or Syncthing do), no need for a ton of dependencies or high scalability libraries. +Use cases might include: + +- serve content directly from a static blog generator +- provide a web UI to some tool (like CUPS and syncthing do) +- implement a basic monitoring page for a service +- provide a simple json API for a service, on top of http +- use `http_of_dir` to serve odoc-generated docs or some assets directory + ## Documentation See https://c-cube.github.io/tiny_httpd