2012/4/2 Bob Cochran <[email protected]>: > *** apologies: I accidentally sent this out the first time on the wrong OE > (commits) list **** > > > > Hello Group, > > I would appreciate any thoughts about the relevancy & security of boa for an > embedded system that needs to support up to several active web requests at a > time.
You can be almost sure that it will not meet (any) security anticipation, if Wikipedia is correct about the last release date. > > The code is getting old and some of the system calls are deprecated or > obsolete (e.g., gethostbyname()). > > Apache appears to be overkill for what we're doing. > > Ultimately, our web server won't just serve static pages but also serve a > low volume of python / django pages, too. I realize that CGI performance > with boa is bad, but it seems that there are options to increase performance > over simply exec'ing the python scripts. > > > Thanks, > > Bob > Maybe Cherokee is worth a try. It looks simple to configure, don't know how secure it is. But I also don't know your expectations of "how secure it has to be" anyways. -- Regards Samuel _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
