#web-servers on Hacker News

5 stories tagged web-servers, newest first.

Screenshot of agwa.name: FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies (agwa.name)

398 points by agwa 6 months ago | 97 comments

Blog post by Andrew Ayer arguing that FastCGI, released 30 years ago, is a better proxy-to-backend protocol than HTTP because it avoids desync vulnerabilities.

fastcgi reverse-proxy http-desync request-smuggling

Screenshot of blog.nginx.org: Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol

Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol (blog.nginx.org)

742 points by phickey 1 year ago | 269 comments

NGINX Community Blog post announcing native support for the ACME protocol for automated TLS certificate issuance and renewal.

nginx acme-protocol lets-encrypt tls-certificates

Screenshot of github.com: Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance

Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance (github.com)

357 points by amatheus 2 years ago | 199 comments

A blog post in the pretzelhammer rust-blog GitHub repo on using Rust via WebAssembly, FFI, or native modules to speed up servers written in other languages.

rust wasm ffi performance

Screenshot of mailman.nginx.org: Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork (mailman.nginx.org)

893 points by bkallus 2 years ago | 354 comments

Mailing list post by core nginx developer Maxim Dounin announcing freenginx, a fork of nginx, after disagreements with F5 management over security policy.

nginx freenginx f5 software-fork