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1.1     ! misho       1:              thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
        !             2:                     version 2.25b of 29dec2003
        !             3: 
        !             4: thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server.
        !             5: 
        !             6: Simple: It handles only the minimum necessary to implement HTTP/1.1.
        !             7: 
        !             8: Small: See the size comparison chart at
        !             9: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/notes.html#sizes.  It also has a
        !            10: very small run-time size, since it does not fork and is very careful about
        !            11: memory allocation.
        !            12: 
        !            13: Portable: It compiles cleanly on FreeBSD 2.x/3.x, SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x,
        !            14: BSD/OS 2.x, Linux 1.2.x, OSF/1 (on a 64-bit Alpha), and no doubt many others.
        !            15: 
        !            16: Fast: In typical use it's about as fast as the best full-featured servers
        !            17: (Apache, NCSA, Netscape).  Under extreme load it's much faster.
        !            18: 
        !            19: Secure: It goes to great lengths to protect the web server machine
        !            20: against attacks and breakins from other sites.
        !            21: 
        !            22: It also has one extremely useful feature (URL-traffic-based throttling) that
        !            23: no other server currently has.
        !            24: 
        !            25: See the manual entry for more details.  See the INSTALL file for
        !            26: configuration and installation instructions.  Check the web page
        !            27: (http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/) for updates, or add yourself to
        !            28: the mailing list by sending a "subscribe" to thttpd-announce-request@mail.acme.com.
        !            29: 
        !            30: Comments to:
        !            31:     Jef Poskanzer  jef@mail.acme.com  http://www.acme.com/jef/