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hiawatha-12.3

secure webserver

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Description

Hiawatha is a webserver that has been written with 'being secure' as its main goal. Hiawatha has many security features that no other webserver has. Hiawatha does not have all the fancy features, but it is fast and really easy to configure. Rootjail, run CGIs under any uid/gid you want, prevention of SQL injection and cross-site scripting, banning of clients who try such exploits and many other features make it an interesting webserver for those who need more security than what others are offering (please note that while the author claims it's secure, this software has not been audited by the OpenBSD team). Note: The project website says: "Due to lack of interest in this project, I no longer actively support and promote Hiawatha. I still use Hiawatha a lot myself, so development will continue, but likely very slow. New versions will still be released via this website."

Package information

Ports path
www/hiawatha
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
www, net, lang/php
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, sparc64, alpha, hppa

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