Fedora 22 Update: darkhttpd-1.11-1.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-2874
2015-02-28 16:25:36
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Name        : darkhttpd
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 1.11
Release     : 1.fc22
URL         : http://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/
Summary     : A secure, lightweight, fast, single-threaded HTTP/1.1 server
Description :
darkhttpd is a secure, lightweight, fast and single-threaded HTTP/1.1 server.

== Features ==
* Simple to set up:
  * Single binary, no other files.
  * Standalone, doesn't need inetd or ucspi-tcp.
  * No messing around with config files.
* Written in C - efficient and portable.
* Small memory footprint.
* Event loop, single threaded - no fork() or pthreads.
* Generates directory listings.
* Supports HTTP GET and HEAD requests.
* Supports Range / partial content.
* Supports If-Modified-Since.
* Supports Keep-Alive connections.
* Can serve 301 redirects based on Host header.
* Uses sendfile().

== Security ==
* Can log accesses, including Referer and User-Agent.
* Can chroot.
* Can drop privileges.
* Impervious to /../ sniffing.
* Times out idle connections.
* Drops overly long requests.

== Limitations ==
* This server only serves static content - *NO* CGI supported!

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Update Information:

* Call setgroups() before setgid().

== Fedora package ==
* Fix erroneous %post section
* Add mimetype option for users in darkhttpd.sysconfig
* /bin/darkhttpd -> /sbin/darkhttpd
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1178330 - darkhttpd-1.11 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178330
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update darkhttpd' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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