Webrick provides servlet stubs and everything else, so it would be practical, probably trivial, to port IOWA to it.

Here's what I use for Borges, all the work happens in do_GET/do_POST, and the majority of that work is simply mapping WEBrick Request/Response to a Borges request/response. (With a little work, I may be able to use a webrick request/response inside Borges, I haven't looked into it yet.)

require 'webrick'

class BorgesServer < WEBrick::HTTPServlet::AbstractServlet

  attr_accessor :handler

  def initialize(server, options = {})
    super @handler = options[:Handler] || WADispatcher.default
  end

  ##
  # WEBrick HTTP GET handler

  def do_GET(req, res)
    request = WARequest.new(req.path, req.header, req.query, req.cookies)
    response = @handler.handle_request(request)

    res.status = response.status
    res.body = response.contents

    response.headers.each do |k,v|
      res[k] = v
    end
  end

  ##
  # WEBrick HTTP POST handler (same as GET)

  alias do_POST do_GET

  ##
  # Create a new Borges Server
  def self.create(options)
    options[:BindAddress] ||= '0.0.0.0'
    options[:Listen] ||= [['::', 7000]]
    options[:Port] ||= 7000

    server = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(options)
    server.mount("/borges", BorgesServer, options)

    return server
  end

  ##
  # Start a new BorgesServer with a SIGINT handler

  def self.start(options = {})
    server = self.create(options)
    trap("INT") do server.shutdown end
    server.start

    return server
  end

end

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