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Comment:Typos and minor enhancements to the althttpd.md document.
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User & Date: drh 2019-10-02 10:40:53.250
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2019-10-02
11:41
Merge branch-3.29 enhancements into trunk, and in particular the hd_adunit change. (check-in: caa36aeea0 user: drh tags: trunk)
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Typos and minor enhancements to the althttpd.md document. (check-in: 5140eb346c user: drh tags: trunk)
2019-09-28
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Typo fixes. (check-in: 7a37431be5 user: drh tags: trunk)
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itself listens on port 80 for incoming HTTP requests, then forks
a copy of itself to handle each inbound connection.  Each connection
is still handled using a separate process.  The only difference is
that the connection-handler process is now started by a master
althttpd instance rather than by xinetd or stunnel4.

Althttpd has no configuration file. All configuration is handled
using a few command-line arguments. This helps to keep this
configuration simple and mitigate worries about about introducing
a security vulnerability through a misconfigured web server.

Althttpd does not itself handle TLS connections.  For HTTPS, althttpd
relies on stunnel4 to handle TLS protocol negotiation, decryption, and
encryption.

Because each althttpd process only needs to service a single








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itself listens on port 80 for incoming HTTP requests, then forks
a copy of itself to handle each inbound connection.  Each connection
is still handled using a separate process.  The only difference is
that the connection-handler process is now started by a master
althttpd instance rather than by xinetd or stunnel4.

Althttpd has no configuration file. All configuration is handled
using a few command-line arguments. This helps to keep the
configuration simple and mitigates worries about about introducing
a security vulnerability through a misconfigured web server.

Althttpd does not itself handle TLS connections.  For HTTPS, althttpd
relies on stunnel4 to handle TLS protocol negotiation, decryption, and
encryption.

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The "-auth" file is plain text and line oriented.
Blank lines and lines that begin with "#" are ignored.
Other lines have meaning as follows:

  *  <b>http-redirect</b>

     The http-redirect line, if present, causes all HTTP requests to
     redirect into an HTTPS request.



  *  <b>https-only</b>

     The https-only line, if present, means that only HTTPS requests
     are allowed.  Any HTTP request results in a 404 Not Found error.
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The "-auth" file is plain text and line oriented.
Blank lines and lines that begin with "#" are ignored.
Other lines have meaning as follows:

  *  <b>http-redirect</b>

     The http-redirect line, if present, causes all HTTP requests to
     redirect into an HTTPS request.  The "-auth" file is read and
     processes sequentially, so lines below the "http-redirect" line
     are never seen or processed for http requests.

  *  <b>https-only</b>

     The https-only line, if present, means that only HTTPS requests
     are allowed.  Any HTTP request results in a 404 Not Found error.
     The https-only line normally occurs after an http-redirect line.
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