GoAhead Specifications

The GoAhead product includes the following components:

• GoAhead HTTP Server library
• GoAhead HTTP Server main program
• Interface to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS)
• Documentation
• Samples
• Source code

HTTP Server Engine

• Full HTTP/1.1 support
• IPv4 and IPv6
• Single-threaded, event-based server
• Request routing and rewriting
• Supports chunked and pipelined requests
• Error and access Logging (Common Log Format)
• Sand-box resource limits
• Session state storage

Performance

• Request throughput (> 10,000 requests per second)
• Event-based core for efficient processing of multiple requests
• Small memory footprint: 115K code

Modularity

• Conditional build-time options
• Handlers for CGI, Javascript templates, files, file upload and SSL
• Configurable request routing
• Extensible / replaceable authorization

Security

• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Basic, Digest and Form Authentication
• Route based authorization
• Sandbox limits
• Access and access violation logging
• Safe portable runtime to protect against memory leaks and buffer overflows

Dynamic Content

• Server-Side JavaScript
• CGI/1.1
• GoActions — In-memory URL actions
• Custom C Handlers

Javascript Templates (JST)

• Web page templating engine
• Embedded Javascript (subset) in HTML pages
• Fast, automatic reloading of updated web pages
• Ajax View Controls with jQuery support
• Session state management

Developer Support

• HTTP server libraries
• Shared and static library build options
• Operate single-threaded or multithreaded (Compile or run-time selectable)
• Easy, intuitive programming model
• Extensive C API
• Extensive debug trace logging

Documentation

• Full C API Documentation
• Guides and programmer references

Platform Support

• Linux (2.6+)
• Windows (7+)
• MAC OS X (10.7+)
• VxWorks (6.X+)
• FreeBSD (10.X+)
• Unix
• Easily ported to new platforms

Embedding Support

• Supports ARM, MIPS, X86, PPC and Sparc processors
• Full cross-compilation support. Use Windows, Linux or Mac as build system
• Fine-grained control for conditional build and compilation
• Execute from ROM (XIP)

Standards

• HTTP/1.1
• CGI/1.1

Please read Licensing for further details.