Bozohttpd

Jul 20, 2023

Bozotic HTTP server from NetBSD

Bozohttpd is a small and secure HTTP version 1.1 server. Its main feature is the lack of features, reducing the code size and improving verifiability. This is also the minimal web server that is shipped by default in NetBSD.

It supports SSL, CGI/1.1, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/0.9, ~user translations, virtual hosting support, as well as multiple IP-based servers on a single machine. It is capable of serving pages via the IPv6 protocol. It has no configuration file by design. Many features are enabled with CLI options.

For extra security, unused features can be excluded when you build the port

o Support for blacklistd8 to avoid DoS abuse
o Common Gateway Interface CGI support -C, -c, -E, -e
o Optional daemon mode -b
o Debug support -d
o Automatic directory index if index.html is missing -X
o Dynamic content based on file suffixes -C, -M
o Basic authentication with .htpasswd files
o SSL/TLS for HTTPS requests -Z, -z
o Lua scripts for dynamic content -L
o Optional /~user transformation -e, -p, -u


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