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https://github.com/immunant/lighttpd-rust

C2Rust transpiled version of lighttpd
https://github.com/immunant/lighttpd-rust

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README 

        

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lighttpd

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a light httpd

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:abstract:

  lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server

  which has been optimized for high-performance environments. It has a very

  low memory footprint compared to other webservers and takes care of cpu-load.

  Its advanced feature-set (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression,

  URL-Rewriting and many more) make lighttpd the perfect webserver-software

  for every server that is suffering load problems.



:documentation:

  https://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/



the naming

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lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is



- fast as __light__ning and

- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements



Features

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Network

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- IPv4, IPv6



Protocols

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- HTTP/2   (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7540.txt)

- HTTP/1.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)

- HTTP/1.0 (https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt)

- HTTPS (via one of openssl, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, mbedTLS, wolfSSL, GnuTLS, NSS)

- CGI/1.1 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3875.txt)

- FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html)



Advanced Features

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- load-balanced FastCGI, SCGI, reverse-proxy, socket proxy, websocket tunnel

  (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)

- streaming FastCGI, SCGI, reverse-proxy, socket proxy, websocket tunnel

- custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599)

- virtual hosts

- directory listings

- URL-Rewriting

- HTTP-Redirection

- output-compression with transparent caching



FastCGI-Support

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- parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly

- Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header



PHP-Support

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- same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4

- handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI

- includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x)



Security features

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- chroot(), set UID, set GID

- protecting docroot



HTTP/1.1 features

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- Ranges (start-end, start-, -end, multiple ranges)

- HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive + HTTP/1.1 persistent Connections

- methods: GET, HEAD, POST

- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling

- sends Content-Length if possible

- sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible

- sends Content-Type

- on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)

- authentication: basic and digest

  (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)



HTTP/1.1 compliance

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- Sends 206 for Range Requests

- Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests

- Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests

- Sends 400 for broken Request-Line

- Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests

- Sends 416 for "out-of-range" on Range: Header

- Sends 501 for request-method != (GET|POST|HEAD)

- Sends 505 for protocol != HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1

- Sends Date: on every requests



Intended Audience

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- Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder")

  - delivering small files rapidly

- php-servers under high load

  (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers)



Works with

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It has been tested to work with



- IE 6.0

- Mozilla 1.x

- Konqueror 3.1

  (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)

- wget

  (for Resuming)

- acrobat plugin

  (for multiple ranges)



Works on

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lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on



- Linux

- FreeBSD

- NetBSD

- OpenBSD

- Solaris 8 + 9

- SGI IRIX 6.5

- Windows (when compiled under cygwin)

(and will likely compile and run on most unix-like systems with C99 compiler)



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Starting lighttpd

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As daemon in the background: ::



  $ lighttpd -f 



or without detaching from the console: ::



  $ lighttpd -D -f