Hello,

I'm needing to create a own HTTPS server. Googling, I found Powtils(*), with three servers: lightwebserver, lightwebserver2 or lightwebserver3.

So, which one is recommended to be used in production?

(*) - https://code.google.com/p/powtils

Thank you!

ps. Issue posted in: https://code.google.com/p/powtils/issues/detail?id=1

None, IMHO.

After I looked at their code, I wrote fphttpserver.

Michael.

silvioprog wrote

So, which one is recommended to be used in production?

Having recently (and currently still) doing extensive work with embedded HTTP servers, I tested many (Powtils, Indy, tiWebServer, FPC, nYume etc). I must agree with Michael, fphttpserver is a good choice. There is a bit of a learning curve [compared to some others], but nothing major. Overall, I'm very happy with the final choice on fphttpserver.

Regards,
Graeme

2013/10/28 Michael Van Canneyt

Very nice. I'll test lightwebserver.

Thank you Michael! :)

2013/10/28 Graeme Geldenhuys

Me too. I'm using fphttpserver in several other projects, and I'm very happy.

My new project needs of SSL securit, however, I'm still considering using HTTP with another encryption instead of SSL.

https protocol support is on my TODO list.
Should hopefully be implemented before christmas :)

Michael.

2013/10/29 Michael Van Canneyt

Yyyeeesss, this is an excellent news Michael! :)

I'll use this future feature in Brook via broker, then I'll not need to change the code in my projects.

Is this assessment valid for win or linux or both? J

John Lee wrote

Is this assessment valid for win or linux or both? J

Both.

To my knowledge, Graeme works on both platforms equally.

I myself am biased towards Linux, but I do have knowledge of people using it extensively on Windows.

Michael.

John Lee wrote

Is this assessment valid for win or linux or both? J

I use both equally, and for the 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.

Regards,
Graeme

2013/10/30 Graeme Geldenhuys

+1.

Out of curiosity, how is its performance compared to Indy based web server. My current employer has a highly optimized data system with custom web server and custom DB. No SQL sentences and no SQL DBs obviously. The load it can handle is quite impressive.
It manages information for schools: personnel, students, courses, exams, timetables, messaging etc.

I understood Graeme's system is also for schools but handles the actual learning material which makes it different. Yet I believe it also has high performance requirements and must handle heavy load.

My employer (StarSoft, Finland) system is compiled with both Delphi and FPC, on Windows and Linux.
Porting the code for Unicode so it still works with both Delphi and FPC is a challenge. Uhhh!
I will not tell more or I will reveal company secrets.

Regards,
Juha

Hi Juha,

Juha Manninen wrote

Out of curiosity, how is its performance compared to Indy based web server.

The Embedded Web Server is only used for a "single user" product, which learners can buy on a DVD and the load on
that web server is actually very low.

Our "full system" is installed in learning centres (Schools and Master Maths/Science centres) with anything from 10-60+ concurrent users. For that we use Apache Web Server.

Both products actually use the exact same CGI executables - one product simply talks to an embedded web server application and accesses an Embedded Firebird Database, and the other product talks to Apache and a full scale Firebird Database Server. The CGI client apps are implemented with Powtils because we simply couldn't get fcl-web based CGI apps to work in our environment (where our Adobe Flash content needs to load external resources, and that always failed with fcl-web for some still unknown reason). Our business objects, data access components and data persistence are all handled by the tiOPF framework. We only use the Free Pascal compiler (no Delphi). Desktop GUI apps are based on fpGUI Toolkit.
Regards,
Graeme

fphttpserver was not built for speed.
I would not dare to make this comparison.

That is the exact description of my previous job :)

Michael.

2013/11/1 Michael Van Canneyt

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Once I did a test and fphttpserver responded to 2000 requests per second. ;)

silvioprog wrote

Once I did a test and fphttpserver responded to 2000 requests per second. ;)

The speed depends on page contents, too, but anyway that sounds very fast.

Juha