GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU libmicrohttpd 1.0 Released For Embed-Friendly Web Server

GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 is out today as the first major release of this C library implementing an easy-to-run HTTP web server that is embed-friendly for use by other applications...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-libmicrohttpd-1.0

[panikal]

Michael you may have misread the announcement - it's not https coming in the future, but http2 and http3. Was wondering why they'd have gnutls support but not support https

This version will have an easier to use API, add support for HTTP2 and HTTP3, as well as multiple TLS backends

[kylew77]

Very cool project. Wonder if it could serve a static website? My Linux VPS serves a page using 37MB of RAM out of the 1 GB I have. This sounds like it could do so simpler.

[Serafean]

Very cool project. Wonder if it could serve a static website? My Linux VPS serves a page using 37MB of RAM out of the 1 GB I have. This sounds like it could do so simpler.

This is for embedding into programs, as a library. You might like https://www.lighttpd.net/ , unless you want to write your own...

[ehansin]

This is for embedding into programs, as a library. You might like https://www.lighttpd.net/ , unless you want to write your own...

Ah, lighttpd - kind of forgot about that one, thought used to follow. Looks like still actively developed. My work laptop run macOS, just installed it via Homebrew (they have the latest release, which is from October, recent.) Not sure how this compare to say Nginx, but now I can do DDG seaching and see what I can learn from others online. Configuration file looks nice and clean and easy, I like that!

[GraysonPeddie]

Very cool project. Wonder if it could serve a static website? My Linux VPS serves a page using 37MB of RAM out of the 1 GB I have. This sounds like it could do so simpler.

37MB of 1GB! Very impressive. Mine is 251MB with Apache and PHP8.2-fpm but no MariaDB as I currently run my own blog with nothing but PHP and flat files. The one top consumer is systemd-journald... Heh... SystemD... Not that I would need it for my web server...

Update: Got rid of do-agent (an agent for Digital Ocean VPS droplet). Now I'm down to 214MB of RAM.

Update 2: A fresh reboot and I'm down to 171MB of RAM out of 2GB. Too bad I cannot get down to 1GB of RAM with Digital Ocean without sacrificing too much on storage space.

[kylew77]

37MB of 1GB! Very impressive. Mine is 251MB with Apache and PHP8.2-fpm but no MariaDB as I currently run my own blog with nothing but PHP and flat files. The one top consumer is systemd-journald... Heh... SystemD... Not that I would need it for my web server...

Update: Got rid of do-agent (an agent for Digital Ocean VPS droplet). Now I'm down to 214MB of RAM.

Update 2: A fresh reboot and I'm down to 171MB of RAM out of 2GB. Too bad I cannot get down to 1GB of RAM with Digital Ocean without sacrificing too much on storage space.

I just have CentOS 7 installed on a VPS with HTTP server installed. HTTP server in CentOS is actually apache.

Here are the stats at the moment:

[root@jobfinder-vps ~]$ free -h
                total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           1.0G         32M        878M        364K        112M        990M
Swap:          256M        2.4M        253M
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[hsci]

Using libmicrohttpd for years within a Gtkmm based application. It serves it purpose well and reliable
Compared with other libraries it is low-level which requires some understanding of the foundation.