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Boa (web server)

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Original author(s)
  
Paul Phillips

Development status
  
Discontinued

Initial release
  
circa 1995

Developer(s)
  
Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson

Stable release
  
0.94.13 / July 30, 2002; 14 years ago (2002-07-30)

Preview release
  
0.94.14rc21 / February 23, 2005; 12 years ago (2005-02-23)

Boa is a discontinued since 2005 open-source small-footprint web server that is suitable for embedded applications. Originally written by Paul Phillips, it was previously maintained by Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson.

Slashdot and Fotolog use Boa to serve images.

As of January 2006, Boa has the following limitations

  • No access control features (HTTP Basic access authentication, etc.)
  • No chroot option (planned)
  • No Server Side Includes (deemed incompatible with server performance goals)
  • No SSL support although there are some patches against 0.94.13 that introduce SSL support

    • References

    Boa (web server) Wikipedia
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