README
- Introduction
- Features
- Building
- Configuraton
- Bugs
- Fun facts
- Authors
INTRODUCTION
dawnhttpd (Dawn HTTP deamon), derived from darkhttpd, is a simple web server written in portable ANSI C. It supports static pages, and MIME type based handlers. It can drop privileges before accepting connections; and, it can log received requests. It can log POST request data in a guestbook. It supports SSL connections, basic throttling, and basic http authentication. It compiles and runs on 32 and 64 bits computers.
FEATURES
- INI-style configuration.
- MIME type based handlers.
- Support for guestboooks.
- Support for basic static cache.
- Support for Gnu locate requests.
- Support for basic authentication.
- Support for basic throttling (size in KB).
- Support for SSL connections using AWS s2n or LibreSSL tls ibrary.
- Support for proxy connections to a backend server.
- Support for SSL SNI connections (future release).
- Support for url mappings (future release).
- Support for extended mimetypes, url mappings, and protected folders (future release).
BUILDING
Enable ipv6 by including -DENABLE_IPV6 in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable slocate by including -DENABLE_SLOCATE in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable guestbook by including -DENABLE_GUESTBOOK in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable pidfile by including -DENABLE_PIDFILE in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable password by including -DENABLE_PASSWORD in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable LibreSSL connections by including -DENABLE_SSL_TLS in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable AWS SSL connections by including -DENABLE_SSL_S2N in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable proxy connections by including -DENABLE_PROXY in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Enable server features by including -DENABLE_SERVER in the Makefile CFLAGS.
Install dawnhttpd by running the following commands, as root:
make && make install
Modify and copy settings.ini to /etc/dawnhttpd/
CONFIGURATION
INI-style configuration was added for settings, passwords, and mimetypes.
Passwords must be in the format of the password entry in /etc/shadow (crypt).
Invoke the command dawnhttpd –help for help information.
Guestbook entry keys should be encased by ‘<%’ and ‘%>’.
BUGS
Strange bug in the tuple_cmp function.
Debug to see if it occurs on your computer, where the const parameter o2 gets reset to NULL.
Bug reports, patches and suggestions are much appreciated.
See GitHub repository: https://www.github.com/dev-breeze-com/dawnhttpd
FUN FACTS
On an AMD Athlon64 X2 (Mem 1G) running Linux 3.10.104-amd64, we get
weighttp -n 100000 -c 375 -k -H ‘User-Agent: Weighttp’ 127.0.0.1:80
weighttp - a lightweight and simple webserver benchmarking tool
starting benchmark…
spawning thread #1: 375 concurrent requests, 100000 total requests
progress: 10% done
…
progress: 100% done
finished in 10 sec, 919 millisec and 115 microsec, 9158 req/s, 79580 kbyte/s
requests: 100000 total, 100000 started, 100000 done, 100000 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored
status codes: 100000 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 889800000 bytes total, 22000000 bytes http, 867800000 bytes data
weighttp -n 1000000 -c 500 -t 2 -k 127.0.0.1/index-1024.html
weighttp - a lightweight and simple webserver benchmarking tool
starting benchmark…
spawning thread #1: 250 concurrent requests, 500000 total requests
spawning thread #2: 250 concurrent requests, 500000 total requests
progress: 10% done
…
progress: 100% done
finished in 80 sec, 768 millisec and 851 microsec, 12381 req/s, 15040 kbyte/s
requests: 1000000 total, 1000000 started, 1000000 done, 1000000 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 errored
status codes: 1000000 2xx, 0 3xx, 0 4xx, 0 5xx
traffic: 1244000000 bytes total, 220000000 bytes http, 1024000000 bytes data
AUTHORS
Pierre Innocent ( dev@breezeos.com )
The Breeze::OS website: http://www.breezeos.com
REPOSITORY
Dawnhttp github.io: https://dev-breeze-com.github.io/dawnhttpd
Dawnhttp v1.5: https://www.github.com/dev-breeze-com/dawnhttpd
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