On 25/05/2011 16:11, Ed W wrote: > Now, the next question is perhaps, what is the lightest weight and most > dependency free simply http server? For example I have a server that I > want to add to the ntp pool and one of their requests is that any http > request to that IP is responded to with a redirect to the main > http://pool.ntp.org website - trivial and desperately in need of a super > lightweight server? > > I can think of busybox's server. Probably there are some trivial perl > scripts (but I would want to hear they weren't exploitable...). Any > other ideas for a trivial lightweight http server? Minimal logging, 301 > redirects and static file serving being the only requirements - non > conforming to non mainstream http request headers completely acceptable...
Answering my own question. Although there are plenty of candidates, the shortlist appears to draw from: - Boa/thttpd - Both small, but unmaintained for a while? - Monkeyd - very lightweight and pretty functional. Maintained. Appears to be the modern ultra-micro webserver of choice? - nginx - Who would have thought it was actually so small... 380KB for a reasonably standard install, 260KB for a minimal build. Well maintained with a development goal of being fast, secure and low memory It obviously depends on how small your binary needs to be, but given that I am very familiar with nginx it's small enough for my requirements. Possibly worth adding as an FAQ item? Ed W
