status

quite useful, has been in production for quite some time.

intro

shttpd is a simple httpd.

features:

• http/1.0, http/1.1 (keep-alive, chunked responses). no "http/0.9".
• cgi and scgi support
• virtual hosts
• determining content-type based on file extension
• error/access logging
• index file serving, html directory listings
• http basic authentication
• "range" requests, for random access to files
• redirections with regular expressions
• configuration in attrdb format
• as compliant as possible, where reasonable
• mindful of security

see the manual page for full documentation

download

get the latest version from:

http://www.ueber.net/code/r/httpd

install

first make sure you have "http", the http library installed, see
http://www.ueber.net/code/r/http.

make sure you have $ROOT set, now "mk install" to compile and install
the files.

when building from within inferno, insert SYSHOST=Inferno and ROOT=
in the mk invocations to override the values in the mkconfig.

licence

all files written by me (i.e. all except the rfcs in doc/) are
in the public domain.  for bugs, questions, comments, etc., contact
me at mechiel@ueber.net or mechiel@xs4all.nl.

non-features

some features will not be implemented.  for example:

• connection rate limiting. should be done at a higher level, e.g. firewall.

testing/todo

doc/testing.txt can be used for testing.  it has to be done manually,
enough corner cases have not been tested, but quite a few have.

todo:

• when responding with chunked data, can we embed an error message in a chunks comment-part when an error with reading the data occurs?
• support transfer-encoding chunked and compressed content-encodings from client?
• check for security issues with http
• transparent compression?
• think of ssl?
• try to fix dir listings for paths with multiple slashes in them. firefox breaks on them, is firefox right?
• test with other browsers