Hiawatha

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Hiawatha is a secure webserver available for multiple platforms. It has been written with by Hugo Leisink in 2002 due to his dissatisfaction with the existing solutions.

History

Hiawatha started in January 2002 as a very small webserver, suitable for servers with old hardware. It was written for internet servers in student houses in Delft. Because the author was a computer science student with special interest in IT security, all sorts of experimental security features were included. This resulted in a webserver with many interesting security features which are proven useful.

Main releases

• 1.0: September 2002. A basic but functional webserver.
• 2.0: March 2004. Use of multithreading instead of forking.
• 3.0: September 2004. SSL support.
• 4.0: December 2005. A CGI-wrapper for improved security was included.
• 5.0: October 2006. FastCGI support for improved CGI speed.
• 6.0: October 2007. IPv6 support.

Features

Hiawatha has many security features that no other webserver has, like preventing SQL-injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), banning of potential hackers and limiting the runtime of your CGI applications.^[1]

Performance

Although security is the main focus of this webserver, Hiawatha has excellent performance. Hiawatha is twice as fast as Apache for static content.^{[citation needed]} Hiawatha supports load-balanced FastCGI, which makes it fast and scalable for handling dynamic content.

References

1. ^ List of features

See also

• Comparison of web servers
• Tiny web servers

External links

Free software portal

• Hiawatha webserver website

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