Return to README CVS log

Up to [ELWIX - Embedded LightWeight unIX -] / embedaddon / thttpd

thttpd

    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/