Ouistiti - Small featured HTTP server

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Ouistiti - Small featured HTTP server

Ouistiti

Ouistiti (ˈwistiti) is the french name of Marmoset a little monkey of the New World.

Ouistiti is a small web server to manage and to configure small devices. It allows to create an unified Web interface for security on Documents, Websocket, Rest API and more.

Ouistiti is dedicated to be embedded on device for control from a web server.

With Ouistiti, all pages, websockets, scripts are protected by the same way. It is useless to manage the authentication by your-self.

Features

Multi HTTP versions:

  • HTTP/0.9 HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 : Ouistiti is able to manage each version of the HTTP protocol from the requests or to accept only the requests of one version.
  • Keep Alive connection: A client connection may be use for several requests.
  • pipeline requests: Ouistiti is able to receive request during the management of the previous one in the same connection.

Secure HTTP - HTTPS:

TLS/SSL connection is available as module with mbedtls or openssl library.

Authentication:

The authentication is available on all client’s connection. The users’ password may be encrypted for the storage. The following challenge are supported:

  • Basic Authentication: Ouistiti is able to check the users to the simplest way.
  • Digest Authentication: Ouistiti allows to create your connection page and check the rights.
  • Bearer Authentication: Ouistiti is able to create a token and all instances of Ouistiti is able to check this token on the same network domain.
  • OpenID Authentication: Manage the users on a OpenID server (like Google) and Ouistiti checks the user’s rights on it.

Websocket:

A module build a Websocket bridge between HTTP socket client and UNIX socket. It is able to manage the handshake and the transfer of data to your application. You develop a STREAM server on a UNIX socket, Ouistiti protects it on a HTTPS connection.

HTTP streaming:

Like the Websocket, Ouistiti is able to protect your stream’s server. Your application should only send data on a STREAM socket, Ouistiti does the rest.

Static documents:

Like any webserver, Ouistiti is able to send any kinds of files to your client. And in the same time it can manage them on your server:

  • Rest API: it allows to manage the document files with a Rest API to upload, delete, rename the files directly on the server.
  • Home directory: each user can manage his own directory with his private rights.
  • Range request: file may be broken into many chunks for the download.

CGI/1.1:

CGI scripts may be call from the client.

Connection filtering:

The server may start with a blacklist and a whitelist of IP address.

Mono threading or multi threading:

Ouistiti may be build to manage client connections with only one process, to be the fastest webserver.
Or it may create a independants process for each client connection, to create a sandbox around it.

Get Ouistiti

The source code is available on GitHub.