Abyss Web Server versions

Establish and run a web server on your Mac.
2.9
Jun 22, 2013
Review
2.8
Jul 29, 2012
Review
2.7
Jun 6, 2011
Editorial review
rating
2.1
Mar 19, 2021

What's new

v2.8 [Jul 29, 2012]
- IPv6 support
- Reverse-proxy support
- Back-end operation: support for operation behind reverse proxies (X-Host/X-Forwarded-Host support - Host-wide : support for the use of the actual IP X-Forwarded-For - X-Forwarded-Proto)
- Configurable log
- Limit accesses per IP
- Server Activity: "Live" requests view in the console
- Added private keys dump in the console
- Detection of double instances and the presence of the Windows Service
- Added an optional base parameter to URL Rewriting rules
- Added timestamps to CGI error logs
- Support for chunked POSTs with HTTP trailer headers support
- Added full HTTP "Expect" header support
- Added request body restrictions: Added a parameter to limit the size of a request line, Added a parameter to limit the size of request headers length, Report error 414 or 400 for request length overflow
- Added ASP.NET/FastCGI processes recycling based on the process lifetime
- Full preload of ASP.NET applications (using an internal HTTP HEAD request)
- Added the capability to ASP.NET applications to handle all the virtual paths inside an application directory (useful for ASP.NET applications using MVC/AJAX/routes.)
- Updated SSL/TLS engine
- Updated documentation
- also includes several internal enhancements and fixes the problems that have been reported with previous versions.

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