Hiawatha is a secure and advanced open source web server available for multiple platforms. It particularly 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.
Key Features
- Easy to use.
- Good speed and performance.
- Small and lightweight – a good choice for old hardware or embedded systems.
- CGI and load balancing FastCGI support.
- FastCGI Process Manager.
- 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 web servers.
- Hiawatha Monitor, a PHP application that communicates with your web server to collect information about bandwidth usage, number of requests, errors and attacks.
Website: hiawatha.leisink.net
Support:
Developer: Hugo Leisink
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
Hiawatha has essentially been discontinued although the developer continues to make minor improvements and fixes.
Hiawatha is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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