coleman - web server and C servlet engine

Coleman is a couple different things. It's a simple, fast, and small web server. It's also a servlet engine in C instead of Java.

The servlet architecture is a great idea, a nice simple plug-in interface for web servers, but it has some problems. First, it's tied to Java. If you don't like that language then you are stuck. Second, the performance of servlet-based web servers is inherently mediocre because they handle concurrency with threads.

Coleman fixes both of these problems; the first, by using plain old C as the API language; the second, with a new hybrid concurrency model.

See the manual pages for more details:

• coleman.8
• servlet.3
• file_servlet.8
• cgi_servlet.8
• test_servlet.8
• sample_servlet.8

If you are currently using thttpd and/or mini_httpd and want to know how coleman compares, here's a little table:

Are you using coleman? There's a mailing list. Join the conversation!