Inetd HTTP server

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In case you need a place holder or redirector for http server it's easy to implement using the following:

Add to /etc/inetd.conf (or similar) 

http    stream  tcp     nowait  nobody  /usr/local/bin/tiny_httpd

Now create the /usr/local/bin/tiny_httpd: 

#!/usr/bin/tail -n+2
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Tail_Server/1.0 (Unix)
Last-Modified:  Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:00:00 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML>
 ....
whatever message is required
....
</HTML>
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