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authorArno Töll <arno@debian.org>2012-11-21 23:03:45 +0100
committerArno Töll <arno@debian.org>2012-11-21 23:03:45 +0100
commit9fa7c3d770fb8688555b661940e04c3bf6b6d8aa (patch)
tree7d26c5c3a492656762910721988ee0867f7a57c4 /README
parentc99b717062c6228c4ac6df3831702f81c9806df4 (diff)
downloadlighttpd-9fa7c3d770fb8688555b661940e04c3bf6b6d8aa.tar.gz
Imported Upstream version 1.4.13~r1385upstream/1.4.13_r1385
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--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ 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,
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ a light httpd
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 +50,7 @@ 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 +71,18 @@ 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 +91,7 @@ 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 +101,7 @@ 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 +118,14 @@ 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
--------