Lighttpd

When would you use this?

On a resource limited machine were I like to run only xinetd and only start any other servers when required (which is very infrequent)

OK, I do understand that lighttpd is already very light i.e. is excellent it that respect. I just like the idea of using xinetd to start services on demand as opposed to have lots of rarely used daemons running all the time from boot. I do understand if you decide that this request is not worth the effort; but hey its worth a try.

I'm willing to have a go at creating a patch and submitting if you wish.

Would like to run ligthtpd via inetd, too.

-- Joerg

I tried to search for any web-server with cgi-support running via xinetd and really can't find anything. There are many use cases it is really usefull. Please add this feature to lighttpd

yes this would be very usefull for me!

-- x0rcist

Perhaps someone will implement this someday. But i don't think so.

And btw: iirc, you have just to communicate over the stdin fd, not to listen/accept on it; there is no server socket.