Hiawatha 5.11

Hiawatha is a secure webserver for Unix. Hiawatha has been written with being secure as its main goal. Hiawatha has lots of features that no other webserver has.
This and the fact that Hiawathas source code is free of security-bugs, makes Hiawatha the most secure webserver available. I hereby challege every visitor of this website to find a security-bug in the Hiawatha webserver.
Hiawatha has been tested and runs perfectly on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MacOS X and Cygwin.
Why you should use Hiawatha instead of Apache? Apache is a big piece of software and has a damn ugly configurationfile. Nevertheless, its fast in handling PHP files and has lots of features, like WebDAV.
If you need that, stick with Apache. If you dont, theres no reason why should not try Hiawatha. Hiawatha is small (about 60kb) and its configurationfile is easy to understand. And if you need a real secure webserver, Hiawatha is your piece of software.
Main features:
Abilities:
Request methods:
- GET
- POST
- HEAD
- OPTIONS
HTTP codes:
- 200 OK
- 206 Partial Content
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 302 Found
- 304 Not Modified
- 400 Bad Request
- 401 Unauthorized
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found
- 405 Method Not Allowed
- 408 Request Timeout
- 412 Precondition Failed
- 413 Request Entity Too Large
- 416 Requested Range Not Satisfiable
- 500 Internal Server Error
- 501 Not Implemented
- 503 Service Unavailable
- 505 HTTP Version Not Supported
Extra:
- Access/connection control
- Banning
- Basic authorization & authentication
- CGI support (including PHP)
- Chunked Transfer-encoding
- CommandChannel (control Hiawatha by telnetting to a special port)
- Cookie support
- Cross-site scripting prevention
- Customizable ServerString
- Directorylisting in HTML format
- DoS/flooding protection
- GZip Content-Encoding support
- If-(Un)Modified-Since header field
- Interface binding control
- Keep-alive connections
- Logfiles
- Request pipelining
- Plugin support (at sourcelevel)
- Range header field (single range support)
- Referer control for images (prevent external image linking)
- Rootjail
- SSL support
- SQL injection prevention
- Traffic throttling (control uploadspeed)
- Userdirectory support (run CGI scripts with uid and gid of that user)
- Virtual host support
- Volatile object support (for frequently changing objects, like webcam pictures)
Enhancements:
- Several bugfixes, and support for uploading large files via the HTTP PUT request method.