Re: thttpd

[Oleg <lego12239@yandex.ru>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:42:15AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote:
> On 27/04/2012 00:37, lego12239@yandex.ru wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:06:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >> Oleg <lego12239@yandex.ru> writes:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:40:27AM -0500, Juli?n Moreno Pati?o wrote:
> >>
> >>>> thttpd was removed, for more details, please see:
> >>
> >>>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/thttpd/news/20120101T154305Z.html
> >>>> http://bugs.debian.org/653752
> >>
> >>>   And what alternatives exist now?
> >>
> >> nginx seems to be the one everyone is using these days, but there are tons
> >> of web servers in Debian.
> >>
> >>     grep-aptavail -F Provides -s Package,Description httpd
> >>
> >> returns aolserver4-daemon, boa, bozohttpd, cherokee, lighttpd, mathopd,
> >> micro-httpd, mini-httpd, monkey, webfs, and yaws in addition to nginx (and
> >> of course Apache), as well as some other stuff that looks more
> >> specialized.
> > 
> >   Thanks.
> >   I think i can found a one appropriate from this list.
> > 
> > 
> 
> If you're working on an embedded system you might be interested to know that
> busybox has a httpd as well, accessible via "busybox httpd" or by symlinking
> busybox to httpd.

  Yes, i'm searching a tiny httpd for an embedded system with cgi support and
possibly with http basic authentication support.
  Thank you. I didn't know about busybox httpd.