Hiawatha webserver

Infobox Software
name = Hiawatha



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author = Hugo Leisink
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platform = Unix, MacOS X, Windows
language = C
genre = Web server
license = GNU GPL
website = [http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ www.hiawatha-webserver.org]

Hiawatha is a secure webserver for Unix. It has been written with 'being secure' as its main goal.

History

Hiawatha started in January 2002 as a very small webserver, suitable for servers with old hardware. It was written for internet servers in student houses in Delft. Because the author was a computer science student with special interest in IT security, all sorts of experimental security features were included. This resulted in a webserver with many interesting security features which are proven useful.

;Main releases:
* 1.0: September 2002. A basic but functional webserver.
* 2.0: March 2004. Use of multithreading instead of forking.
* 3.0: September 2004. SSL support.
* 4.0: December 2005. A CGI-wrapper for improved security was included.
* 5.0: October 2006. FastCGI support for improved CGI speed.
* 6.0: October 2007. IPv6 support.

Features

Hiawatha has many security features that no other webserver has, like preventing SQL-injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), banning of potential hackers and limiting the runtime of your CGI applications. [ [http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/features.html List of features] ]

Performance

Although security is the main focus of this webserver, Hiawatha has excellent performance. Hiawatha is twice as fast as Apache for static content. Hiawatha supports load-balanced FastCGI, which makes it fast and scalable for handling dynamic content.

References

ee also

* Comparison of web servers
* Tiny web servers

External links

* [http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ Hiawatha webserver website]