Gatling is a high performance web server featuring:
- Small! (125k static Linux-x86 binary with HTTP, FTP and SMB support)
- Fast! (measure for yourself, please)
- Scalable!
- Uses platform-specific performance and scalability APIs on Linux 2.4, Linux 2.6, NetBSD current (2.0+), FreeBSD 4+, OpenBSD 3.4+, Solaris 9+, AIX 5L, IRIX 6.5+, MacOS X Panther+, HP-UX 11+
- connection keep-alive
- el-cheapo virtual domains (similar to thttpd)
- IPv6 support
- Content-Range
- transparent content negotiation (will serve foo.html.gz if foo.html was asked for and browser indicates it understands deflate)
- With optional directory index generation
- Will only serve world readable files (so you don't export files accidentally)
- Supports FTP and FTP upload as well (upload only to world writable irectories
and the files won't be downloadable unless you chmod a+r them manually)
- CGI support for HTTP, also SCGI and FastCGI (over IP sockets, not Unix Domain yet)
- El-cheapo .htaccess support (see README.htaccess)
- Quick-and-dirty SSL/TLS support (see README.tls)
- Can detect some common mime types itself, like file(1)
- Read-only SMB support (good enough to read a specific file from Windows or using smbclient from Samba)