[oe] Is boa still a decent choice for an embedded web server?

[Enrico]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Bob Cochran
<openembedded at mindchasers.com> wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> I would appreciate any thoughts about the relevancy & security of boa for an
> embedded system that needs to support up to several active web requests at a
> time.
>
> The code is getting old and some of the system calls are deprecated or
> obsolete (e.g., gethostbyname()).
>
> Apache appears to be overkill for what we're doing.
>
> Ultimately, our web server won't just serve static pages but also serve a
> low volume of python / django pages, too.  I realize that CGI performance
> with boa is bad, but it seems that there are options to increase performance
> over simply exec'ing the python scripts.

Did you already try/evaluate lighttpd? I'm using it on an arm board,
but security is not my main concern.

Enrico