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luckystrike on June 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mongrel2 Is "Self-Hosting"

  I'd like a simple, efficient, scalable HTTP server written in C ...

Check out libebb - http://tinyclouds.org/libebb/. It was created by Ryah Dahl (node.js fame) and is a solid piece of software. We used it in our WebROaR server for ruby web applications.

Sidenote: libebb's Ragel based parser is derived from Mongrel.

varyinteresting on June 17, 2010 | [–]

That is great. I'd never heard of libebb before but have a couple of things I can already use this for. Thanks for sharing.

tedunangst on June 17, 2010 | [–]

Mongrel is GPL, more or less. libebb claims to be X11 licensed. How is this possible?

zedshaw on June 18, 2010 | [–]

Ruby Mongrel is both GPL or Ruby licensed, mostly to keep Debian happy.

Mongrel2 however is AGPL.

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