GenHTTP Lambda

Terms of service

This is a free service for trying things out. It runs code written by strangers on shared infrastructure, which is only workable if everybody keeps to a few rules.

What you may not put here

No malware, no phishing, no crypto miners. Nothing that attacks, scans, floods or otherwise interferes with other systems, here or anywhere else. Nothing that harasses anybody. Nothing you have no right to publish - that includes other people's code, text, images and trademarks.

Do not use a lambda to store or forward personal data about other people. There is nothing private about a public address, and this platform offers you no way to keep such data safe.

What we may do about it

Anything deployed here can be taken offline or removed at any time, with no notice and no obligation to explain. In practice that happens when something breaks the rules above, when it threatens the machine everybody else is sharing, or when somebody reports it and they turn out to be right.

How long anything lasts

A deployment stays reachable for about 720 hours. A lambda you have not opened is removed, with every version of its code, about 90 days after you last touched it. Saving or deploying counts as touching it, so anything you are working on stays. Nothing here is a backup: keep your own copy of code you care about.

Your editor link is your password

Anybody who has the editor link can read and change that lambda, and there is no account and no password behind it. If you publish the link, you have published the ability to change it. There is no way to recover one that is lost.

No warranty

The service is provided as it is, with no guarantee that it works, keeps working, or keeps anything you put into it. It may be restarted, changed or switched off at any time. Do not build anything on it that matters to you or to anybody else.

Reporting something

If a lambda hosted here is doing something it should not, write to abuse@genhttp.dev with its address. See the front page for what to include.

These terms can change. The version that applies is the one on this page.