Boa is a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike
traditional web servers, it does not fork for each incoming
connection, nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple
connections. It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP
connections, and forks only for CGI programs (which must be separate
processes.) Preliminary tests show boa is about twice as fast as
Apache, and is capable of handling 50 hits per second on a 66 MHz '486.
The primary design goals of Boa are speed and security. Security,
in the sense of "can't be subverted by a malicious user", not "fine
grained access control and encrypted communications".
Tomcat can use the Apache Portable Runtime to provide superior scalability,
performance, and better integration with native server technologies.
APR has many uses, including access to advanced IO functionality (such as
sendfile, epoll and OpenSSL), OS level functionality (random number
generation, system status, etc), and native process handling (shared memory,
NT pipes and Unix sockets).
These features allows making Tomcat a general purpose webserver, will
enable much better integration with other native web technologies, and
overall make Java much more viable as a full fledged webserver platform
rather than simply a backend focused technology.
Edbrowse is an editor, a web browser, and a mail client that is 100%
text based. The interface is similar to /bin/ed, though there are many
more features, such as editing multiple files simultaneously, and
rendering html.
This program was originally written for blind users, but many sighted
users have taken advantage of its unique scripting capabilities, which
can be found nowhere else. A batch job, or cron job, can access web
pages on the internet, submit forms, and send email, with no human
intervention whatsoever.
The htt provides a large variety of HTTP-related functionality, useful for
implementing all kinds of HTTP-based tests:
- Advanced HTTP protocol handling, including ne-grained timeout handling,
request and response validation
- Simulating clients and servers, including startup and shutdown of server
daemons. This allows to create mock-ups of back-end systems in more complex
test situations, for example when the tested application needs to interact
with a 3rd-party back-end system which is not available in the testing
environment.
- Execution of external commandline tools, using their output as request
or response data, or for validation purposes.
- Copying stream data (e.g. from a response) and re-using it in variables.
HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a
World Wide website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively
all directories, getting html, images, and other files from the server to your
computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply
open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the
site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online.
HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted
downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
This is a port of The Internet Junkbuster Proxy(TM). An excelent way
to enhance your privacy while browsing the web. And it also happens
to do a great job of filtering out all those annoying banner ads!
This modified version allows one to specify appearance of blocked GIFs.
It can automatically compress text/html and text/plain documents for clients
which support Accept-Encoding: gzip (e.g. Netscape 4.7, Internet Explorer 5,
Lynx 2.8.3) to save downstream modem/network bandwidth. It uses the zlib
compression library to perform on-the-fly compression of HTML documents.
Please note that this software does not support IPv6. See www/privoxy
for a worth followup of this software.
Shakespeare is a family of type-safe, efficient template languages.
Shakespeare templates are expanded at compile-time, ensuring that all
interpolated variables are in scope. Variables are interpolated
according to their type through a typeclass. Shakespeare templates can
be used inline with a quasi-quoter or in an external file. Note there is
no dependency on haskell-src-extras. Instead Shakespeare believes logic
should stay out of templates and has its own minimal Haskell parser.
Packages that use this: shakespeare-js, shakespeare-css,
shakespeare-text, hamlet, and xml-hamlet.
The W3C Reference Library is a general code base that can be used to build
clients and servers. It contains code for accessing HTTP, FTP, Gopher, News,
WAIS, Telnet servers, and the local file system. Furthermore it provides
modules for parsing, managing and presenting hypertext objects to the user
and a wide spectra of generic programming utilities. The Library is the
basis for many World-Wide Web applications and all the W3C software is build
on top of it. The Library is a required part of all other W3C applications
in this distribution.
ljdump reads the journal entries from a LiveJournal (or compatible) blog
site and archives them in a subdirectory named after the journal name.
Both the journal entries and journal comments are downloaded, which makes
ljdump a great backup tool for creating offline copy of your journal.
The program may be run as often as needed to bring the backup copy up to
date. Both new and updated items are downloaded.
ljdump uses only standard Python libraries, so it will work wherever
Python itself does (Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, etc).
'mkapachepw' is an Apache user/group management package with a rich set of
features:
- automatically create apache users/groups from underlying os users/groups
- break large, complex user & group data into separately managed files
- specify which particular users/groups are to be included or excluded
- catch (and prevent) redefinition of user/groups
'mkapachepw' is a pure-Python application and should run on any Unix system
that support Python 2.4 or later.
'mkapachepw' is free for individual, non-commerical, personal use. Use in any
setting where there is any remuneration, direct or indirect, requires payment
of a licensing fee. Individual, multiple, and enterprise licensing is
available. Contact mkapachepw@tundraware.com for current pricing.