About

Mighttpd2 (called mighty) is a simple but practical HTTP server written in Haskell. It handles static files and CGI scripts. It also provides a feature of reverse proxy and URL rewriting with HTTP redirect.

Mighttpd2 is now implemented as a WAI application using the high-performance HTTP engine, Warp. To httperf Ping-Pong benchmark, the performance of Mighttpd2 is similar to that of nginx.

mew.org is provided with Mighttpd2.

Features

• Redirection and language negotiation
• CGI: GET and POST
• Index of files in a directory should be statically created by the mighty-mkindex command.
• Reverse proxy

Technical slides and articles

• Experience Report: Developing High Performance HTTP/2 Server in Haskell
• Warp, The Performance of Open Source Applications
• Mio: A High-Performance Multicore IO Manager for GHC, Haskell Symposium 2013
• The architecture of Mighttpd, a high performance web server (in Japanese)
• Mighty and Yesod (slides)
• Mighttpd - a High Performance Web Server in Haskell, the Monad.Reader, Issue 19
• High Performance Web Server in Haskell (slides)
• Experience on implementing a Web server in Haskell (slides)