Cookbook: "Start a Web Server and render HTML template" with dream and cohttp #3185
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yawaramin
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Jun 30, 2025
| open Cohttp | ||
| open Cohttp_lwt_unix | ||
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| let template = {| |
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I don't think we should show an example building templates with raw strings without any escaping. It's a very easy way to open up the server to injection attacks. There are multiple options for safer HTML templating/generation libraries that can be used.
| @@ Dream.logger | ||
| @@ Dream.router [ | ||
| Dream.get "/" (fun _ -> Dream.html template); | ||
| Dream.any "/" (fun _ -> Dream.empty `Not_Found); |
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I would leave this out as Dream will just handle this automatically.
yawaramin
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Cookbook for - Start a Web Server That Serves an HTML Template