The OpenBSD project appears to be imploding. Recently, they removed the venerable Apache HTTPD and replace it with the questionable Russian made BSD licensed Nginx. Now they are planing to remove Nginx as well and replace it with a shadowy application which the OpenBSD devs simply call "httpd" which recently appeared in OpenBSD current. See:
Nothing else is known about this new "web server", it's functionality or even whether it is made by OpenBSD, the NSA or criminal hacker groups. OpenBSD devs simply said in the new manpage:
The exclusion of Nginx and Apache on OpenBSD means that users will no longer be able to run full featured web servers in chroot, a feature that has kept the decrease in OpenBSD usage share just shy of ~7000 users. Without this feature, OpenBSD usage share with likely be devastated. Long time OpenBSD users have shown outrage and threaten to leave the OS. Even hardcore OpenBSD nutcases like Reyk Floater (who collaborated by Theo de Raadt in re-licensing Linux Atheros drivers) are know threatening to leave the project for Linux.
Nothing else is known about this new "web server", it's functionality or even whether it is made by OpenBSD, the NSA or criminal hacker groups. OpenBSD devs simply said in the new manpage:
The httpd daemon is an HTTP server with FastCGI and SSL support.
The httpd program first appeared in OpenBSD 5.6. httpd is based on relayd(8).
The httpd program first appeared in OpenBSD 5.6. httpd is based on relayd(8).
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