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diff --git a/doc/features.txt b/doc/features.txt index cfccbb1..f45fe08 100644 --- a/doc/features.txt +++ b/doc/features.txt @@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ progress report :Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $ :abstract: - This document tries to track the requested features and + This document tries to track the requested features and the release when they have been implemented. - + .. meta:: :keywords: lighttpd, features - + .. contents:: Table of Contents Description @@ -29,17 +29,17 @@ It is used to see what is still missing and what is already done. :: > considering installing and testing the latest version. From a > quick glance, it seems to support most/all of the features of > Premium thttpd and Zeus. - + If you think it compares to Zeus, then you've obviously never used Zeus. - + lighttpd is currently the only non-blocking open source web server to support FastCGI responders and that's worthwhile. - + The documentation is lacking. Comments in the configuration file do not make up for a complete manual. - + Constantly improving. :: - + The configuration syntax is overly complex, like Apache. There is no .htaccess support. @@ -50,34 +50,34 @@ Constantly improving. :: SSL. Works since 1.3.0. :: - + There is no SSI support. Zeus has full recursive SSI support. Output from a FastCGI program can get run through the SSI interpreter. SSI can also do virtual includes recursively. - + SSI works since 1.2.4. :: - + Request logging is not configurable. Zeus supports fully configurable access logging, plus a binary version of CLF that save space. - + 1.2.6 adds Apache-like logfile config. :: - + Access control only allows authentication via username and password. There is no way to allow or deny based in IP address. - + planed for 1.3.x :: - + The request rewriting appears to only allow regex substitutions. Zeus has a simple, yet powerful, request rewrite language. - - + + There is no support for FastCGI authorizers. These are very useful for high traffic sites that require complex authentication schemes or that store authorization information in a central database. - + since 1.1.9. :: - + There is no bandwidth throttling support. Zeus does bandwidth throttling correctly (i.e. unlike past versions of thttpd) and can throttle on a per-subserver (thttpd-style virtual hosts) basis. @@ -88,29 +88,29 @@ since 1.3.8. :: modification of web server behavior. While it isn't strictly necessary for an open source web server, it nice to have a documented, consistent API, rather than having to manually patch the server. - + If someone requests it it might be implemented. :: - + There is no web based interface. Zeus has a complete web based interface for everything, including a powerful feature of configuring multiple virtual servers at once. - + That is something that should be a special feature of Zeus. :) :: - + There is no support for mapping certain URLs to specific filesystem paths. - + since 1.2.6 :: - + There is no referring checking. This is incredibly important to prevent hotlinking of bandwidth intensive media types (images, movies, etc.). - + we have something better: mod_secdownload. And if someone wants referer checking we have a condition in the config for it since 1.2.9 :: - + Zeus has a lot of features that lighttpd doesn't have, but I only mentioned the ones I care about and use. - - -- + + -- David Phillips <david@acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ |