Hiawatha (web Server) - Features

Features

Hiawatha web server implements all important functions of a modern web server, such as:

  • CGI and load balancing FastCGI support
  • Large file support
  • Reverse proxy functionality
  • Chroot support
  • URL toolkit which support URL rewriting
  • SSL and TLS support
  • Basic and digest HTTP authentication
  • Upload speed control by traffic shaping
  • Internal file caching
  • IPv6 support
  • HTTP compression using gzip
  • Virtual hosting
  • Support for WebDAV applications
  • Support for Server Name Indication included in v8.6

Hiawatha has many security features that no other web server has, like 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. The author worked on RFC3546 support, but "the OpenSSL documentation is just extremely poor" so progress was difficult. Although, RFC3546 support has been included since v8.6 version which is developed with PolarSSLv1.2 .

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