I've tried to include a few languages of how you might write a server to respond to requests from http.

An important constraint with these servers that http can connect to is that they must run over HTTP and not HTTPS (which many hosting platforms provide and enforce for free).

To use the server, select the language you're familiar with or want to play with and start the server (details below).

You'll need to know your server machine's IP address (which will be printed when you start the server), and from NextBASIC you can test using the following code.

The example assumes your server is running on IP address 192.168.0.1 and on the port 8080:

10 LAYER 0
20 BANK 20 CLEAR :; we'll use bank 20 for this example
30 ../http -b 20 -h 192.168.0.1 -p 8080
40 s$ = BANK 20 PEEK$(0, ~128) :; the response is terminated with the $80 byte
50 PRINT s$

If you're using Cspect, you will need to request the http://192.168.0.1:8080/7 URL and use the -7 flag as this encodes the bytes to 7-bit (a constraint on Cpsect) as the servers are sending byte values greater than $3F. This means line 30 will read:

30 ../http -b 20 -h 192.168.0.1 -p 8080 -u /7 -7

If running from Next hardware, you do not need this.

Note that PHP and Python typically come pre-installed on most operating systems, but these servers are intended as illustrative only.

• JavaScript: requires nodejs, then use node example.js
• Go: requires golang, then use go run example.go
• PHP: requires PHP, then use php -S 192.168.0.1:8000 example.php (remember to use your own IP)
• Python: requires python, then use python3 example.py

Note that all the servers include code to dump out the POST'ed body using a hexdump routine - this is only to give you a better insight into the contents sent from the Next machine to the server.

I have built an am running a simple hosted service for data which runs over HTTP. Accounts are free, but are on a request basis.

The service accepts GET and POST requests and you can manage what the reply is from the GET requests. It also has the functionality to process POST requests to modify the GET reply dynamically and is documented.

The service can be found at http://data.remysharp.com

If there's a language you think should be included, please send a pull request with a server that supports the same functionality as that demonstrated by the existing servers.