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| 1 thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server | |
| 2 version 2.25b of 29dec2003 | |
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| 4 thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server. | |
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| 6 Simple: It handles only the minimum necessary to implement HTTP/1.1. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 19 Secure: It goes to great lengths to protect the web server machine | |
| 20 against attacks and breakins from other sites. | |
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| 22 It also has one extremely useful feature (URL-traffic-based throttling) that | |
| 23 no other server currently has. | |
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| 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.c
om. | |
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| 30 Comments to: | |
| 31 Jef Poskanzer jef@mail.acme.com http://www.acme.com/jef/ | |
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