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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/