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author | Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> | 2012-11-21 23:57:42 +0100 |
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committer | Arno Töll <arno@debian.org> | 2012-11-21 23:57:42 +0100 |
commit | 47236ea4c1d5601fc6bea1b280d36152ec5ff32b (patch) | |
tree | 89c109c0bef460fa747a3413610034002fac1cb4 /README | |
parent | dae92c799e85ec3b65f46da6a776e4386bc99d6c (diff) | |
download | lighttpd-47236ea4c1d5601fc6bea1b280d36152ec5ff32b.tar.gz |
Imported Upstream version 1.4.32
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 12 deletions
@@ -12,17 +12,20 @@ a light httpd :Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $ :abstract: - lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server + 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: + http://wiki.lighttpd.net/ + the naming ---------- -lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is +lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is - fast as __light__ning and - __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements @@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ Advanced Features - load-balanced FastCGI (one webserver distributes requests to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI) - custom error pages (for Response-Code 400-599) -- virtual hosts +- virtual hosts - directory listings - streaming CGI and FastCGI - URL-Rewriting @@ -71,18 +74,18 @@ PHP-Support - includes a utility to spawn FastCGI processes (necessary for PHP 4.3.x) Security features -````````````````` +````````````````` - chroot(), set UID, set GID - protecting docroot HTTP/1.1 features -````````````````` +````````````````` - 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 +- Last-Modified + If-Modified handling - sends Content-Length if possible - sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible - sends Content-Type @@ -91,7 +94,7 @@ HTTP/1.1 features (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt) HTTP/1.1 compliance -``````````````````` +``````````````````` - Sends 206 for Range Requests - Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests @@ -101,7 +104,7 @@ HTTP/1.1 compliance - 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 +- Sends Date: on every requests Intended Audience ----------------- @@ -118,14 +121,14 @@ It has been tested to work with - IE 6.0 - Mozilla 1.x -- Konqueror 3.1 +- Konqueror 3.1 (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip) -- wget +- wget (for Resuming) - acrobat plugin (for multiple ranges) - - + + Works on -------- |