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diff --git a/doc/features.txt b/doc/features.txt deleted file mode 100644 index cfccbb11..00000000 --- a/doc/features.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,116 +0,0 @@ -=============== -progress report -=============== - -:Author: Jan Kneschke -:Date: $Date: 2004/11/03 22:26:05 $ -:Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $ - -:abstract: - This document tries to track the requested features and - the release when they have been implemented. - -.. meta:: - :keywords: lighttpd, features - -.. contents:: Table of Contents - -Description -=========== - -The document was inspired by a mail from David Phillips: - -http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=thttpd&m=108051453226692&w=2 - -It is used to see what is still missing and what is already done. :: - - zell@zell.best.vwh.net writes: - > Now that the author has made the source code available, I am - > considering installing and testing the latest version. From a - > quick glance, it seems to support most/all of the features of - > Premium thttpd and Zeus. - - If you think it compares to Zeus, then you've obviously never used Zeus. - - lighttpd is currently the only non-blocking open source web server to - support FastCGI responders and that's worthwhile. - - The documentation is lacking. Comments in the configuration file do not - make up for a complete manual. - -Constantly improving. :: - - The configuration syntax is overly complex, like Apache. There is no .htaccess - support. - -.htaccess support is not planed yet. :: - - There is only one server. You cannot have a separate configuration for each - virtual server. This would seem to be especially problematic when doing - SSL. - -Works since 1.3.0. :: - - There is no SSI support. Zeus has full recursive SSI support. Output from - a FastCGI program can get run through the SSI interpreter. SSI can also do - virtual includes recursively. - -SSI works since 1.2.4. :: - - Request logging is not configurable. Zeus supports fully configurable - access logging, plus a binary version of CLF that save space. - -1.2.6 adds Apache-like logfile config. :: - - Access control only allows authentication via username and password. There - is no way to allow or deny based in IP address. - -planed for 1.3.x :: - - The request rewriting appears to only allow regex substitutions. Zeus has a - simple, yet powerful, request rewrite language. - - - - There is no support for FastCGI authorizers. These are very useful for high - traffic sites that require complex authentication schemes or that store - authorization information in a central database. - -since 1.1.9. :: - - There is no bandwidth throttling support. Zeus does bandwidth throttling - correctly (i.e. unlike past versions of thttpd) and can throttle on a - per-subserver (thttpd-style virtual hosts) basis. - -since 1.3.8. :: - - There is no ISAPI support. ISAPI is an elegant, open API that allows - modification of web server behavior. While it isn't strictly necessary for - an open source web server, it nice to have a documented, consistent API, - rather than having to manually patch the server. - -If someone requests it it might be implemented. :: - - There is no web based interface. Zeus has a complete web based interface - for everything, including a powerful feature of configuring multiple virtual - servers at once. - -That is something that should be a special feature of Zeus. :) :: - - There is no support for mapping certain URLs to specific filesystem paths. - -since 1.2.6 :: - - There is no referring checking. This is incredibly important to prevent - hotlinking of bandwidth intensive media types (images, movies, etc.). - -we have something better: mod_secdownload. And if someone wants referer -checking we have a condition in the config for it since 1.2.9 :: - - Zeus has a lot of features that lighttpd doesn't have, but I only mentioned - the ones I care about and use. - - -- - David Phillips <david@acz.org> - http://david.acz.org/ - |