thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP serverFetch version 2.25b. Release notes.
thttpd is a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server. - Simple: It handles only the minimum necessary to implement HTTP/1.1. Well, maybe a little more than the minimum.
- Small: See the comparison chart. It also has a very small run-time size, since it does not fork and is very careful about memory allocation.
- Portable: It compiles cleanly on most any Unix-like OS, specifically including FreeBSD, SunOS 4, Solaris 2, BSD/OS, Linux, OSF.
- Fast: In typical use it's about as fast as the best full-featured servers (Apache, NCSA, Netscape). Under extreme load it's much faster.
- Secure: It goes to great lengths to protect the web server machine against attacks and breakins from other sites.
It also has one extremely useful feature (URL-traffic-based throttling) that no other server currently has. Plus, it supports IPv6 out of the box, no patching required.
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