thttpd, unofficial resources

A.D.F. -> httpd -> thttpd

1. Introduction

2. Resources

• 2.1 HOME-MAIL-ARCHIVES-FAQ
• 2.2 Technical descriptions
• 2.3 Benchmarks
• 2.4 Articles
• 2.5 Web survey
• 2.6 Ipse dixit

3. Patches and Special Versions

• 3.1 A.D.F.'s patches
• 3.2 Other patches
• 3.3 Modified versions
• 3.4 Commercial versions

1. Introduction

thttpd is a small and fast HTTP server (for UNIX ® like operative systems) developed by ACME Laboratories.  This web page lists mostly unofficial resources about thttpd.
 

2. Resources

These are just a few useful links about thttpd.

2.1 HOME-MAIL-ARCHIVES-FAQ

• thttpd HOME page (en)
• thttpd official WEB resources (en)
• thttpd MAILING list - MAIL ARCHIVES (en)
• thttpd FAQ (en)

2.2 Technical descriptions

• description of improved hash for file cache in thttpd-2.21x (en)

2.3 Benchmarks

• thttpd compared with other web servers (en)
• thttpd 2.22 (beta) vs. apache 1.3.20 with and without SGI patches (de)
• thttpd 2.20c vs. apache 1.3.24 / 2.0.35 (en)

2.4 Articles

• Lightweight web serving with thttpd (en)
• Why is thttpd secure? (en)
• It's small, it's fast, it's thttpd! (en)

2.5 Web survey

• number of web sites hosted by thttpd (en)

2.6 Ipse dixit

• Jef Poskanzer
  • 2005-03-02, thttpd and dynamically generated pages
  • 2005-02-13, thttpd, file truncation and wrapper script
  • 2004-09-20, thttpd and keepalive + pipelining support
  • 2004-01-17, thttpd and gzip support
  • 2003-01-23, thttpd and module API (ISAPI, NSAPI, etc.) support
  • 2002-06-05, thttpd and large files (over 2GB)
  • 2002-05-09, thttpd and recommendations about creating a new patch
  • 2001-09-19, thttpd roadmap and new concurrency model
   
  
• Alan Cox
  • 2001-11-07, thttpd speed compared with Apache
  • 2000-12-29, about superb thttpd scalability
   
  

3. Patches and Special Versions

These links are about patches for and special versions of thttpd.

3.1 A.D.F.'s patches

• thanks and caveats about patches (en)
• how to apply a patch (en)
• thttpd-2.21b-pNN (en)
• thttpd-2.20c-pNN (en)

3.2 Other patches

• old (but interesting) patches that add new features (en)
• patches that add a sophisticated gzip content compression / support (en)
• patches that add mysql support with map based virtual hosting, etc. (en)
• patch that adds PHP 4.x support (SAPI module) (en)

3.3 Modified versions

• thttpd-2.19-MX with MMX optimizations and SSL support
  see also author's projects web page (de)
• thttpd-2.23beta1-titan (en)

3.4 Commercial versions

• Premium thttpd - ultra fast and scalable web server (en)