Projects

NGINX

NGINX [Engine-X] is an HTTP(S) server, HTTP(S) reverse proxy and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running on many heavily loaded sites, including Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, LivingSocial, Hulu, TechCrunch, Dropbox, Tumblr and WordPress.

GNU libmicrohttpd

GNU libmicrohttpd is a small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP server as part of another application. GNU libmicrohttpd is free software and part of the GNU project. Key features that distinguish libmicrohttpd from other projects are: * C library: fast and small * ... [More] API is simple, expressive and fully reentrant * Implementation is http 1.1 compliant * HTTP server can listen on multiple ports * Support for IPv6 * Support for incremental processing of POST data * Creates binary of only 32k (without TLS/SSL support) * Three different threading models * Supported platforms include GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, W32, Symbian and z/OS * Optional support for SSL3 and TLS (requires libgnutls) [Less]

A high-performance security proxy

sec-wall is a feature packed high-performance security proxy supporting SSL/TLS, WSSE, HTTP Auth Basic/Digest, extensible authentication schemes based on custom HTTP headers and XPath expressions, powerful URL matching/rewriting and an optional headers enrichment. It's a security wall you ... [More] can conveniently fence the otherwise defenseless backend servers with. Visit the project's site at http://sec-wall.gefira.pl/ [Less]

httprof

HTTP Profiler (httprof) is a simple program that summarizes packet traces of HTTP traffic, to highlight performance problems caused by excessive network traffic. Many web sites and applications cost more than they should, due to unoptimized network behavior. The original goal of httprof was to ... [More] help people understand that, of all the costs their application incurs, the cost of TLS or SSL (HTTPS) is relatively low. However, it is useful for network profiling generally. The code is now available via SVN, and as a zip file (see the left-hand side of this page for featured downloads). I have tested it on FreeBSD 7 (Python 2.5), Windows 7 (Python 2.6), and Ubuntu 9 (Python 2.6). It "should" work on Mac OS X, too. The conference slides are also available: http://httprof.googlecode.com/files/http-profiling-web-2.0-expo-2009.pdf Here is a screenshot of part of a report generated by httprof: [Less]