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Boa is a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike
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traditional web servers, it does not fork for each incoming
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connection, nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple
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connections. It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP
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connections, and forks only for CGI programs (which must be separate
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processes.) Preliminary tests show boa is about twice as fast as
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Apache, and is capable of handling 50 hits per second on a 66 MHz '486.
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The primary design goals of Boa are speed and security. Security,
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in the sense of "can't be subverted by a malicious user", not "fine
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grained access control and encrypted communications".
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WWW: http://www.boa.org/
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- Alex Dupre
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ale@FreeBSD.org
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