Boa Bibliography

Links to documents relevant to Boa development and usage. Incomplete, we're still working on this. NCSA has a decent page along these lines, too.

Reference documents

W3O HTTP page
RFC 1945 HTTP-1.0 (informational)
IETF Working Group Draft 07 of HTTP-1.1
HTTP: A protocol for networked information
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
commonlog format?
RFC 1738 URL syntax and semantics
RFC 1808 Relative URL syntax and semantics

Other web servers

For unix-alike platforms, with published source code. Also see Yahoo's list.

tiny/turbo/throttling httpd very similar to Boa, with a throttling feature
Roxen: based on ulpc interpreter, non-forking (interpreter implements threading), GPL'd
WN: featureful, GPL'd
Apache: fast, PD
NCSA: standard, legal status?
CERN: standard, PD, supports proxy
xs-httpd 2.0: small, fast, pseudo-GPL'd
bozohttpd.tar.gz sources, in perl
Squid actually an "Internet Object Cache"

Also worth mentioning is Zeus. It is commercial, with a free demo, so it doesn't belong on the list above. Zeus seems to be based on technology similar to Boa and thttpd, but with more bells and whistles.

Benchmarks

zb
WebBench (binary-ware)
Route 66?
WebStone
SpecWeb96

Tools

Analog Logfile analyzer
wwwstat Logfile analyzer
gwstat wwwstat postprocessor
cgiwrap
suEXEC (Boa would need to be ..umm.. "adjusted" to support this)
Anyone know of a good index.html generator (and don't tell me Perl)?

References checked: 19 December, 1996
Larry Doolittle