[BusyBox] netkit-tiny suggestion: httpd

[Matt Kraai]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:47:27AM +0100, Michael Renzmann wrote:
> Hi Ray and the others.
> 
> First of all I have to excuse for a part of my former mail. I wrote that
> I didnÇt receive any answer from the authors of boa yet. In fact, one of
> the authors, Larry Doolittle, replied very quickly, but his mail didnÇt
> reach me for some reason. 
> 
> > 1. Take a look at chttpd. It's basically dhtppd rewritten in C 
> >(dhttpd was written in C++). Still no cgi support, but other small
> > improvements, and half the size of dhttpd, 1/3 the size of thttpd
> > (executable is 16K, contrasted to thttpd's 50K). 
> 
> thttpd is currently 67k. I will have a look at chttpd, thanks for the
> hint.
> 
> > 2. As part of his LRP-based EigerStein distribution, Charles
> > Steinkuehler has written a "weblet" package based on shell scripts.
> > Haven't used it myself, but it sounds interesting. Find in at
> > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net .
> 
> I found that one with freshmeat, but I didnÇt try it by now. It might be
> a nifty solution, but I think it will be hard to include within
> netkit-tiny :))

If the web server is only going to be used for configuration, so that
performance isn't an issue, you might look at micro_httpd
(http://www.acme.com/software/micro_httpd/).  It is only 150 lines of
code, so it can't be too big compiled.

Matt