[BusyBox] Suitable Web Server, anyone?

[Larry Doolittle]

> OTOH, why re-invent the wheel? Does anyone know a *small* web server that
> does .cgi and supplies basic authentication?

I have to put in my usual plug for Boa.
http://www.boa.org/

Boa will do .cgi, and we have had experimental copies that handle
basic authentication.  I don't think that ever made it into a
production release, though.  If you are interested in Boa with
that feature, and you know in detail how you want to use that
feature in real life, send e-mail to support at boa.org.

> The smallest I found was mini_httpd (again from http://www.acme.com), but
> that one doesn't run off inetd and I'd rather have as little as possible
> stuff running.

Don't run a web server from inetd.  The lightweight web servers
like Boa and thttpd only keep a single server process running,
unlike Apache (oink, oink).

On my 200 MHz StrongARM with 100 baseT, I have clocked Boa serving
450 hits per second, and 3 Mo/s transfer rate.  I suspect thttpd
will come close, but we try to keep Boa faster ;-) .

      - Larry