Editing Lighttpd (section)

==Features==
* [[Load balancing (computing)|Load balancing]], [[Common_Gateway_Interface|CGI]], [[FastCGI]], [[Simple Common Gateway Interface|SCGI]], [[HTTP proxy]], Servlet [[Apache_JServ_Protocol|AJP]], [[WebSocket]] tunnel support
* <code>[[chroot]]</code> support
* Web server event mechanism performance – <code>select()</code>, <code>poll()</code>, and <code>epoll()</code><ref>{{cite web |title= Comparing and Evaluating epoll, select, and poll Event Mechanisms |first1= Louay |last1= Gammo |first2= Tim |last2= Brecht |first3= Amol |last3= Shukla |first4= David |last4= Pariag |publisher= University of Waterloo |work= Linux Symposium |date= 2004 |volume= 1 |page= 215 |url=https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/papers/ols-2004.pdf }}</ref>
* Support for more efficient [[event notification]] schemes like <code>[[kqueue]]</code> and <code>[[epoll]]</code>
* Conditional [[URL rewriting]] (mod_rewrite)
* [[Transport Layer Security|TLS/SSL]] with [[Server Name Indication|SNI]] support, via [[OpenSSL]], [[GnuTLS]], [[Mbed TLS]], [[Network_Security_Services|NSS]], [[WolfSSL]].<ref>{{cite web |author1=gstrauss |title=1.4.56 - Lighttpd - fly light |url=https://www.lighttpd.net/2020/11/29/1.4.56/ |website=Lighttpd |access-date=2023-06-02 |date=2020-11-29}}</ref>
* Authentication against an [[Lightweight Directory Access Protocol|LDAP]] or DBI server
* [[RRDtool]] statistics
* Rule-based downloading with possibility of a script handling only authentication
* [[Server Side Includes]] support (but not server-side CGI from SSI)<ref>[http://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/show/1101 Lighttpd - Bug #1101: SSI include virtual does not run cgi] – lighty labs</ref>
* Flexible [[virtual hosting]]
* Modules support
* [[Lua (programming language)|Lua programming language]] scripts via mod_magnet<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModMagnet|title = Docs ModMagnet - Lighttpd - lighty labs}}</ref> 
* [[WebDAV]] support
* [[HTTP compression]] using mod_deflate (zlib, brotli, zstd)
* Light-weight (less than 1 [[Megabyte|MB]])<ref>
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* Single-process design with only several threads. No processes or threads started per connection.
* [[HTTP/2]] support since lighttpd 1.4.56
* [[HTTP/2]] [[WebSocket]] support since lighttpd 1.4.65
* [[Server_Name_Indication#Encrypted_Client_Hello|TLS Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)]]  support since lighttpd 1.4.77<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wiki.lighttpd.net/TLS_ECH|title = lighttpd TLS ECH}}</ref>