Hiawatha
Hiawatha is a secure and advanced open source web server
available for multiple platforms. It particulary focuses on security.
Hiawatha has many security features, such as preventing
SQL-injection, cross-site
scripting (XSS), Cross-site request forgery
(CSRF) prevention, denial-of-service
protection, control external image linking, banning of potential
hackers and limiting the runtime of CGI applications.
Hiawatha supports PHP, Perk, Python, and Ruby.
Features include:
- Easy to use
- CGI and load balancing FastCGI support
- PHP-FastCGI utility - fast and scalable for
handling dynamic content
- Access control - via Basic or Digest HTTP authentication or
by IP address
- Large file support
- Chroot support
- URL toolkit which support URL
rewriting. Pre-defined rewrite rules are
available
- SSL (via PolarSSL) and TLS support
- Protection against SQL injections, Cross-site Scripting
(XSS), Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) and DoS attacks
- Upload speed control by traffic shaping
- Internal file caching
- Keep-alive connection
- Request pipelining
- IPv6 support
- HTTP compression using gzip
- Virtual hosting
- Support for WebDAV applications
- Support for Server Name Indication
- Reverse proxy functionality - integrate other web
solutions or use Hiawatha as an application firewall to protect other
webservers
- Hiawatha Monitor, a PHP application that communicates with
your webserver to collection information about bandwidth usage, number
of requests, errors and attacks
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