godlighty ¶

godlighty is free software highly-customizable HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTPS server written on pure Go.

Why yet another web-server? Because all others suck even for my simple ordinary needs: they use hateful OpenSSL, lack documentation, has complex configuration format, lack some features, hard to extend with.

Rather minimalistic pure-Go web-server with few number of dependencies, producing single statically linked executable. Maximal reuse of native libraries capabilities.
Modern, reliable, secure and fast TLS 1.3 implementation with ChaCha20-Poly1305, session resumption and SNI.
If built with gostls13, then GOST TLS 1.3 cryptography will be fully supported, with ability to use GOST-based X.509 certificates if client announces its knowledge of GOST algorithms (with the fallback to ordinary ECDSA/EdDSA ones).
HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 (only when negotiated during ALPN) and keepalives support. Graceful shutdowns.
gzip and Zstandard compression on-the-fly.
Range, ETag (based on file/directory’s ctime), Last-Modified and corresponding precondition handlers are fully used.
Auto-generated directory listings and read-only WebDAV support.
Per-domain HTTP basic authorization and TLS client authentication.
If corresponding .meta4 files are found, it is parsed and additional Links with Digests headers are generated automatically, based on that Metalink file.
Very friendly to daemontools. Can drop (UID, GID, groups) privileges.

Basically all configuration is done directly inside source code. You have to recompile it every time configuration changes. Is it a problem? I doubt, because Go is very fast. But it produces huge statically linked executables, you say! Use either bsdiff/bspatch or zstd --patch-from!

It is created exclusively to drive my own websites, but if you are interested, then git clone git://git.stargrave.org/godlighty.git it.

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