gatling!

* transparent content negotiation (will serve .gz if was asked for and browser indicates it understands deflate * With optional directory index generation * Will only serve world readable files (so you don't export files accidentally * Supports FTP and FTP upload as well (upload only to world writable directories and the files won't be downloadable unless you chmod a+r them manually * CGI support for HTTP, also SCGI and FastCGI (over IP sockets, not Unix Domain yet * El-cheapo .htaccess support (see README.htaccess * Quick-and-dirty SSL/TLS support (see README.tls * Can detect some common mime types itself, like file(1

gatling alternatives

  • Apache HTTP Server

  • Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web and in 2009 became the first web server to surpass the 100 million web site milestone. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server, and has since evolved to rival other Unix-based web servers in terms of functionality and performance. The majority of all web servers using Apache are Linux web servers.Apache is developed and maintained by an open community of developers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation. »

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • Microsoft IIS

  • Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server is a flexible, secure and easy-to-manage Web server for hosting anything on the Web. From media streaming to web application hosting, IIS’s scalable and open architecture is ready to handle the most demanding tasks.

    tags: http http-daemon php web-server
  • Cherokee

  • Cherokee is a flexible, very fast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL), virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • Hiawatha

  • Hiawatha, a secure and advanced webserver

    tags: http-daemon http-server web-server
  • Wt

  • Wt (pronounced as witty) is a C++ library for developing web applications.

    tags: api c-plus-plus cgi clojure http
  • Baby Web Server

  • This program was build as an alternative for Microsoft IIS . The main goal was to design a simple web server with support for ASP. Setting up Baby ASP Web Server is very easy: copy the executable to a directory of your choice, set the directory of your webpages and it's ready to run!

    tags: asp-support multi-thread-support real-time-server-log web-server
  • H2O

  • An optimized HTTP server / library implementation that can be used either as a standalone server or a library. Supported Protocols: HTTP/1.0 (http and https) HTTP/1.1 (http and https) Websocket (RFC6455, both ws and wss) HTTP/2.0 (draft 14, via Upgrade, NPN, ALP

    tags: http-server websocket
  • VBServer

  • Create a personal web server with simplicity, reliability, and ease using VBServer. Features include PHP, HTTP, and more.

    tags: Portable file-hosting file-server server-software web-hosting
  • Tntnet

  • Fast web server for high performance C++ web applications

    tags: web-development web-server