14 Hand-picked Open Source HTTP Tools

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• LightTPD   - Open source, light footprint webserver.

  Own description: "lighttpd fly light"

• Nginx - Engine X   - Open source HTTP and mail proxy server by Igor Sysoev.

  Own description: "nginx"

• Wget   - Open source GNU command line tool to retrieve files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.

  Own description: "GNU Wget"

• Boa   - Open source high performance web server.

  Own description: "Boa Webserver"

• Curl   - Open source tool for transferring files via FTP, HTTP and various other web protocols.

  Own description: "curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS and FILE. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, kerberos, HTTP form based ..."

• HTTP Lint   - HTTP header checker.

  Own description: "HTTP Lint"

• HTTPManifold   - Open source tool for redistribution, monitoring and debugging of HTTP traffic, by Adam Lane.

  Own description: "A web server that transparently funnels traffic through a single IP address for multiple domains and servers, and logs the process."