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1.1     ! misho       1: ===============
        !             2: progress report
        !             3: ===============
        !             4: 
        !             5: :Author: Jan Kneschke
        !             6: :Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:26:05 $
        !             7: :Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $
        !             8: 
        !             9: :abstract:
        !            10:   This document tries to track the requested features and
        !            11:   the release when they have been implemented.
        !            12: 
        !            13: .. meta::
        !            14:   :keywords: lighttpd, features
        !            15: 
        !            16: .. contents:: Table of Contents
        !            17: 
        !            18: Description
        !            19: ===========
        !            20: 
        !            21: The document was inspired by a mail from David Phillips:
        !            22: 
        !            23: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=thttpd&m=108051453226692&w=2
        !            24: 
        !            25: It is used to see what is still missing and what is already done. ::
        !            26: 
        !            27:   zell@zell.best.vwh.net writes:
        !            28:   > Now that the author has made the source code available, I am
        !            29:   > considering installing and testing the latest version.  From a
        !            30:   > quick glance, it seems to support most/all of the features of
        !            31:   > Premium thttpd and Zeus.
        !            32: 
        !            33:   If you think it compares to Zeus, then you've obviously never used Zeus.
        !            34: 
        !            35:   lighttpd is currently the only non-blocking open source web server to
        !            36:   support FastCGI responders and that's worthwhile.
        !            37: 
        !            38:   The documentation is lacking.  Comments in the configuration file do not
        !            39:   make up for a complete manual.
        !            40: 
        !            41: Constantly improving. ::
        !            42: 
        !            43:   The configuration syntax is overly complex, like Apache.  There is no .htaccess
        !            44:   support.
        !            45: 
        !            46: .htaccess support is not planed yet. ::
        !            47: 
        !            48:   There is only one server.  You cannot have a separate configuration for each
        !            49:   virtual server.  This would seem to be especially problematic when doing
        !            50:   SSL.
        !            51: 
        !            52: Works since 1.3.0. ::
        !            53: 
        !            54:   There is no SSI support.  Zeus has full recursive SSI support.  Output from
        !            55:   a FastCGI program can get run through the SSI interpreter.  SSI can also do
        !            56:   virtual includes recursively.
        !            57: 
        !            58: SSI works since 1.2.4. ::
        !            59: 
        !            60:   Request logging is not configurable.  Zeus supports fully configurable
        !            61:   access logging, plus a binary version of CLF that save space.
        !            62: 
        !            63: 1.2.6 adds Apache-like logfile config. ::
        !            64: 
        !            65:   Access control only allows authentication via username and password.  There
        !            66:   is no way to allow or deny based in IP address.
        !            67: 
        !            68: planed for 1.3.x ::
        !            69: 
        !            70:   The request rewriting appears to only allow regex substitutions.  Zeus has a
        !            71:   simple, yet powerful, request rewrite language.
        !            72: 
        !            73: 
        !            74: 
        !            75:   There is no support for FastCGI authorizers.  These are very useful for high
        !            76:   traffic sites that require complex authentication schemes or that store
        !            77:   authorization information in a central database.
        !            78: 
        !            79: since 1.1.9. ::
        !            80: 
        !            81:   There is no bandwidth throttling support.  Zeus does bandwidth throttling
        !            82:   correctly (i.e. unlike past versions of thttpd) and can throttle on a
        !            83:   per-subserver (thttpd-style virtual hosts) basis.
        !            84: 
        !            85: since 1.3.8. ::
        !            86: 
        !            87:   There is no ISAPI support.  ISAPI is an elegant, open API that allows
        !            88:   modification of web server behavior.  While it isn't strictly necessary for
        !            89:   an open source web server, it nice to have a documented, consistent API,
        !            90:   rather than having to manually patch the server.
        !            91: 
        !            92: If someone requests it it might be implemented. ::
        !            93: 
        !            94:   There is no web based interface.  Zeus has a complete web based interface
        !            95:   for everything, including a powerful feature of configuring multiple virtual
        !            96:   servers at once.
        !            97: 
        !            98: That is something that should be a special feature of Zeus. :) ::
        !            99: 
        !           100:   There is no support for mapping certain URLs to specific filesystem paths.
        !           101: 
        !           102: since 1.2.6 ::
        !           103: 
        !           104:   There is no referring checking.  This is incredibly important to prevent
        !           105:   hotlinking of bandwidth intensive media types (images, movies, etc.).
        !           106: 
        !           107: we have something better: mod_secdownload. And if someone wants referer
        !           108: checking we have a condition in the config for it since 1.2.9 ::
        !           109: 
        !           110:   Zeus has a lot of features that lighttpd doesn't have, but I only mentioned
        !           111:   the ones I care about and use.
        !           112: 
        !           113:   --
        !           114:   David Phillips <david@acz.org>
        !           115:   http://david.acz.org/
        !           116: