summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD')
-rw-r--r--third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD156
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 156 deletions
diff --git a/third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD b/third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD
deleted file mode 100644
index 318da22..0000000
--- a/third_party/lighttpd/README.LIGHTTPD
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,156 +0,0 @@
-
-========
-lighttpd
-========
-
--------------
-a light httpd
--------------
-
-:author: Jan Kneschke
-:Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:25:54 $
-:Revision: $Revision: 1.8 $
-
-:abstract:
- 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.
-
-the naming
-----------
-
-lighttpd is a __httpd__ which is
-
-- fast as __light__ning and
-- __light__ when it comes to memory consumption and system requirements
-
-Features
---------
-
-Network
-```````
-
-- IPv4, IPv6
-
-Protocols
-`````````
-
-- HTTP/1.0 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt)
-- HTTP/1.1 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt)
-- HTTPS (provided by openssl)
-- CGI/1.1 (http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/)
-- FastCGI (http://www.fastcgi.com/devkit/doc/fcgi-spec.html)
-
-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
-- directory listings
-- streaming CGI and FastCGI
-- URL-Rewriting
-- HTTP-Redirection
-- output-compression with transparent caching
-
-FastCGI-Support
-```````````````
-
-- parses the Response-header and completes the HTTP-header accordingly
-- Keep-Alive handling based on Content-Length header
-
-PHP-Support
-```````````
-
-- same speed as or faster than apache + mod_php4
-- handles various PHP bugs in the FastCGI SAPI
-- 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
-- sends Content-Length if possible
-- sends Transfer-Encoding: chunk, if Content-Length is not possible
-- sends Content-Type
-- on-the-fly output compression (deflate, gzip)
-- authentication: basic and digest
- (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt)
-
-HTTP/1.1 compliance
-```````````````````
-
-- Sends 206 for Range Requests
-- Sends 304 for If-Modified Requests
-- Sends 400 for missing Host on HTTP/1.1 requests
-- Sends 400 for broken Request-Line
-- Sends 411 for missing Content-Length on POST requests
-- 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
-
-Intended Audience
------------------
-
-- Ad-Server Front-Ends ("Banner-Schleuder")
- - delivering small files rapidly
-- php-servers under high load
- (load-balancing the php-request over multiple PHP-servers)
-
-Works with
-----------
-
-It has been tested to work with
-
-- IE 6.0
-- Mozilla 1.x
-- Konqueror 3.1
- (for Keep-Alive/Persistent Connections, Accept-Encoding for PHP + gzip)
-- wget
- (for Resuming)
-- acrobat plugin
- (for multiple ranges)
-
-
-Works on
---------
-
-lighttpd has been verified to compile and work on
-
-- Linux
-- FreeBSD
-- NetBSD
-- Solaris 8 + 9
-- SGI IRIX 6.5
-
-missing for HTTP/1.1 compliance
--------------------------------
-- parsing chunked POST request
-
------------------
-Starting lighttpd
------------------
-
-As daemon in the background: ::
-
- $ lighttpd -f <configfile>
-
-or without detaching from the console: ::
-
- $ lighttpd -D -f <configfile>
-
-