This project is designed to be an extremely lightweight file dumping daemon based on a limited HTTP/1.0 protocol implementation that only supports "GET" requests. A major emphasis was placed on security and path sandboxing during the development of this application, which should be easily verifiable due to the lack of bloat in contrast with other HTTP daemons (such as Apache or nginx).
Simply install g++ autoconf automake libtool make if on a Debian based OS, or
similar packages for your system. Then, type sh autogen.sh to generate the
configuration script and Makefiles. After that, run ./configure and
sudo make install to install the binary (sudo required for setuid bit).
Run slwhttp --help for usage information.
Before submitting a pull request, consider opening an issue first so that your contribution can be discussed in detail before working on it.
For licensing information, please see LICENSE in the project's root directory.
The following log from ApacheBench has been altered for readability. Metrics were not changed.
root@test:~/htdocs# ab -n 1024 -c 128 http://localhost/10M.test
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1638069 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Concurrency Level: 128
Time taken for tests: 3.132 seconds
Complete requests: 1024
Bytes transferred: 10 Mbytes
Requests per second: 326.91 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 391.544 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 3.059 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 25.54 [Gbits/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 2.7 0 10
Processing: 31 377 290.6 304 1186
Waiting: 0 1 1.4 0 8
Total: 31 378 292.0 304 1186
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 304
75% 553
90% 843
95% 979
98% 1021
99% 1078
100% 1186 (longest request)