Projects / Cheetah Server
Cheetah Server
Cheetah is a very minimal Web server for testing small local sites, or to continue to serve some content while configuring your primary Web server. It has very few features (and is single-threaded, non-forking for now), except that it will serve files in a directory under a user-specified port, does not require root access, and can serve Last Modified information to aid caching.
| Tags | Internet Web HTTP Servers |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Unix |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 13 Jun 2004 01:06
Changes: Bugs with serving multiple files were fixed.
- 09 Apr 2004 21:07
Changes: A man page was added and the documentation was corrected.
- 19 Feb 2004 07:55
Changes: General code cleanup was done. The Windows distribution was fixed.
- 10 Oct 2003 10:21
Changes: Compilation fixes for newer releases of GCC.
- 08 Apr 2003 19:21
Changes: This is a code audit with many security fixes.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: YAWS??
Create a web server it's one of the most interesting thing that you can do, you can learn so much...no all like's write one but it's a good experience...
http://monkeyd.sf.net
see ya!
Big Monkey
> Yes, and if someone needs an extremely
> robust, reliable server I'll gladly send
> them to Apache. If they want to see a
> very short implementation of an HTTP
> daemon that they can comprehend in one
> sitting they can use this.
>
> Trivial software, I don't know... I
> don't think there's much software that I
> consider trivial (of the open-source
> variety). Besides, I had to justify
> this entry to the Freshmeat editors and
> apparently it's not too trivial :-)
>
>
> % Hey no :) I meant "time spent on
> % re-creating the commodity code", the
> one
> % that's been written of so many times
> % already.
> %
> % I almost got that way when I needed
> to
> % do arbitrary precision maths for
> B.Sc.
> % (I'm M.Sc. ;-), and almost sat down
> and
> % wrote some chunked-number stuff for
> % myself. But then got kindly pointed
> to
> % GNU MP library (libgmp), and that was
> % just superior to *anything* I could
> do
> % that way.
> %
> % It isn't that simple, but if I wanted
> to
> % learn the inside, I'd still have a
> bunch
> % of other, less advanced (or more
> focused
> % ;-) projects to examine.
> %
> % That's what I meant; you can also
> look
> % at the article ``Freshmeat's stance
> on
> % "trivial" software'' in FM section.
> %
> % Good luck!
>
>
>
Re: YAWS??
Yes, and if someone needs an extremely robust, reliable server I'll gladly send them to Apache. If they want to see a very short implementation of an HTTP daemon that they can comprehend in one sitting they can use this.
Trivial software, I don't know... I don't think there's much software that I consider trivial (of the open-source variety). Besides, I had to justify this entry to the Freshmeat editors and apparently it's not too trivial :-)
> Hey no :) I meant "time spent on
> re-creating the commodity code", the one
> that's been written of so many times
> already.
>
> I almost got that way when I needed to
> do arbitrary precision maths for B.Sc.
> (I'm M.Sc. ;-), and almost sat down and
> wrote some chunked-number stuff for
> myself. But then got kindly pointed to
> GNU MP library (libgmp), and that was
> just superior to *anything* I could do
> that way.
>
> It isn't that simple, but if I wanted to
> learn the inside, I'd still have a bunch
> of other, less advanced (or more focused
> ;-) projects to examine.
>
> That's what I meant; you can also look
> at the article ``Freshmeat's stance on
> "trivial" software'' in FM section.
>
> Good luck!
Re: YAWS??
> If creating software for the purpose of
> learning (and then giving it out so
> other people can learn) is sad, then I'm
> one unhappy bastard. :-(
Hey no :) I meant "time spent on re-creating the commodity code", the one that's been written of so many times already.
I almost got that way when I needed to do arbitrary precision maths for B.Sc. (I'm M.Sc. ;-), and almost sat down and wrote some chunked-number stuff for myself. But then got kindly pointed to GNU MP library (libgmp), and that was just superior to *anything* I could do that way.
It isn't that simple, but if I wanted to learn the inside, I'd still have a bunch of other, less advanced (or more focused ;-) projects to examine.
That's what I meant; you can also look at the article ``Freshmeat's stance on "trivial" software'' in FM section.
Good luck!
Re: YAWS??
If creating software for the purpose of learning (and then giving it out so other people can learn) is sad, then I'm one unhappy bastard. :-(
One of the nice things about this piece of code is size - 348 lines. Somebody that's new to programming can hopefully easily understand the software and it may just help someone else learn to code.
> Hey but aren't several hundreds of
> available web servers just enough?
>
> Personally, my favorite
> lightweight/instantly-available/fast&simple
> web server is Boa (0.92 branch,
> specifically).
>
> It's already multiplexing and all the
> stuff, so why waste time on duplicating
> what is already done better?
>
> No offense, just sad to see the
> "yet another" effort.
YAWS??
Hey but aren't several hundreds of available web servers just enough?
Personally, my favorite lightweight/instantly-available/fast&simple web server is Boa (0.92 branch, specifically).
It's already multiplexing and all the stuff, so why waste time on duplicating what is already done better?
No offense, just sad to see the "yet another" effort.