Re: [uClinux-dev] small webserver

From: Alessandro Rubini (rubini@linux.it)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 04:43:08 EST


> Anybody have any recommendations or suggestions on an open-source
> small memory footprint webserver? I'm not being lazy, this seems like
> a group that would know.

My preferred is mine :)

It's part of the EtLinux project, available either as a package in the EtLinux
sources or in the CVS of EtTcl (see http://gnu.systemy.it/software/#cvs)

It has CGI capabilities and it's 2kB or so. However, it runs in the
EtTcl interpreter, which is much bigger than that. In EtLinux we chose
to write everything in EtTcl, so the size of the interpreter is not
an issue.

Note that the main advantage of EtLinux and associated tools is that
it calls fork() withtou exec() whenever the child program is written
in the same language. This means that it cannot run in uClinux.

(On the other hand, for a demo I'm setting up I'll integrate http
serving of static pages with a telnet-like server and the whole of
init, so I'll have a single process running on the (tiny) system).

/alessandro
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