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| Original author(s) | Hugo Leisink |
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| Developer(s) | Hugo Leisink |
| Initial release | 2002 |
| Stable release | 6.14.1 / 2009-06-07 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | Linux, Unix-like, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Web server |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ |
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.
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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.
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