When you need a web server in a hurry.
darkhttpd.c
or: git clone https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd
Features:
- Simple to set up:
- Single binary, no other files, no installation needed.
- Standalone, doesn't need
inetdorucspi-tcp. - No messing around with config files - all you have to specify is the
wwwroot.
- Written in C - efficient and portable.
- Small memory footprint.
- Event loop, single threaded - no fork() or pthreads.
- Generates directory listings.
- Supports HTTP GET and HEAD requests.
- Supports Range / partial content. (try streaming music files or resuming a download)
- Supports If-Modified-Since.
- Supports Keep-Alive connections.
- Supports IPv6.
- Can serve 301 redirects based on Host header.
- Uses
sendfile()on FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux. - Can use acceptfilter on FreeBSD.
- At some point worked on FreeBSD, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris.
- ISC license.
- suckless.org says darkhttpd sucks less.
Security:
- Can log accesses, including Referer and User-Agent.
- Can chroot.
- Can drop privileges.
- Impervious to
/../sniffing. - Times out idle connections.
- Drops overly long requests.
Limitations:
- Only serves static content - no CGI.