Projects

Apache HTTP Server

claimed by Apache Software Foundation

The Apache HTTP Server Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, feature-rich, and freely-available source code implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project is jointly managed by a group of volunteers located around the world, using ... [More] the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server and its related documentation. This project is part of the Apache Software Foundation. In addition, hundreds of users have contributed ideas, code, and documentation to the project. [Less]

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.

lighttpd

Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments. With a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load ... [More] , and advanced feature set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more) LightTPD is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems. [Less]

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]

cocoahttpserver

Sometimes Cocoa developers need an HTTP server in their code. Perhaps they're writing a file-sharing app, or maybe they want to allow website links to communicate with built-in software similar to iTMS links. Obviously the built-in apache server is not an option. Thus the need for a small ... [More] , lightweight, embedded HTTP server. This is what we needed for Mojo and we found a few available solutions: Apple's CocoaHTTPServer CultureCode's Simple HTTP Server WuffHTTPD for $100 USD We liked Apple's the best because it was free and was built using standard networking sockets and streams. However, it didn't have everything we needed, and it seemed to have a few memory leaks. (We patched a few, but it still looked like it was leaking somewhere...) So with Apple's framework for an HTTP server tucked under our arm we set out to make our own. We wanted the following: Built in support for bonjour broadcasting IPv4 and IPv6 support Asynchronous networking using standard Cocoa sockets/streams Digest access authentication TLS encryption support Extremely FAST and memory efficient Heavily commented code Very easily extensible This is the result of our hard work. Please support this free and open source project [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]