src/thttpd-2.27/README

   1              thttpd - tiny/turbo/throttling HTTP server
   2                     version 2.27 of 19Oct2015
   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/