[ECOS] suitable web server for ecos

["Bernd Schuster" <schuster_bernd at gmx dot net>]

Hi, 

I`m doing a ethernet switch project with eCos and a 400MHZ MIPS Prozessor. For my application I`ll need a web server to configurate the fixture. At the moment I`m using the httpd web server which is already included in the ecos enviroment. It`s working but it takes a long time at startup to be able to open the first webpage. I`m not sure if the httpd source code is responsible for this delay or any other part of the ecos. 

In the reference manual of the ecos o/s, I read that httpd is maybe not the best solution (http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-2.0/ref/net-httpd-chapter.html). I`v also heard about the Goahead webserver, but the fact that we`ve to include the logo at the startpage makes this web server unusable for this project. But there`s another web server, called "appweb" which should be fast and also small... but I`m not quite sure if it is suitable for a ecos system because it looks like equal to apache server. 

First of all I`ll need a very fast web server, which supports HTTPS and IPv6, GET and POST requests. As content, I`ll create and send xml and xsl files instead of html files. Therefore it would be great if it web server has a fast xml parser. 

At the moment I found the following web servers: httpd, goahead, appweb and mongoose. Do you know any further web servers I should take into account? And which web server will you suggest?

best regards 
Bernd




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