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]

Wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

cURL

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE, LDAP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, GOPHER, RTMP and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies ... [More] , user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks. [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]

htty

htty is the HTTP TTY, a console application for interacting with web servers. It’s a fun way to explore web APIs and to learn the ins and outs of HTTP. Install by typing: gem install htty

LemonLDAP webSSO

Lemonldap is a reverse proxy based on Apache and mod_perl which manages the accesses of protected resources by information hosted in LDAP directory. A webmin module for system administration is provided. This project is used by major infrastructures of the french government.

POE::Component::Server::SimpleHTTP

This module makes serving up HTTP requests a breeze in POE.

proxytunnel

Proxytunnel is a program that connects stdin and stdout to an origin server somewhere in the Internet through an industry standard HTTPS proxy.This will allow you for example to access SSH servers when you normally only have http(s) access.

mod-openpgp

mod_openpgp is an Apache 2.x module that enhances web-sites to suport OpenPGP-signed requests, OpenPGP-encrypted requests and OpenPGP-based Session Initiation. Along with Enigform, its client-side Mozilla Firefox Plugin developed by the same author (Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman ), they ... [More] provide a Web-of-Trust oriented alternative to the Hierarchy-based HTTPS. However, OpenPGP-based Secure Session Initiation is fully compatible with HTTPS. The whole protocol will be published as a Draft once enough community feedback, bug-fixing and features implementation have been obtained. [Less]