This fork adds DNS server, which redirects traffic from defined domains into picoweb application. So you do not have to access the webpage using IP Address, but using set of domain names you define. You can see it live on ESP8266 in this [video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8uyDuOrvUI)
We are assuming you successfuly installed some application using picoweb framework. If you have not, you can try it on [notes-pico] (https://github.com/pfalcon/notes-pico) example application.
If you want yo use this framework, you have to substitute picoweb/ directory sources with sources from this repository. It is just 3 files inside picoweb directory: __init__.py, utils.py, captivedns.py. Now you can build your app and use it.
Let assume you have built notes-pico and picoweb from this repository. Now you can flash the image and start the application as usual:
import notes_pico.__main__notes_pico.__main__.main(host="0.0.0.0", port=80)
DNS server is running by default on domain esp.device, so it can be accessed by browser not only on url http://192.168.4.1/, but also on url http://esp.device/. If you want to use custom set of domains, you can use keyword argument captive_domains when calling app.run. Since main method in notes_pico is passing arguments to app.run we can user the argument in main
notes_pico.__main__.main(host="0.0.0.0", port=80, captive_domains=['esp.device', 'yourname.yourdomain'])