GWAN webserver allowing dynamic pages in D

[SomeDude]

On Tuesday, 26 June 2012 at 20:39:06 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 27-Jun-12 00:24, Anonymous wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 June 2012 at 16:58:25 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:
>>> On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 10:17:27 UTC, P. Lefevre wrote:
>>>> For those interested in web development, GWAN is a VERY fast 
>>>> web
>>>> server (Linux only) which allow development of dynamic pages 
>>>> in C,
>>>> C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, and D (since january this 
>>>> year) !
>>>>
>>>> see http://gwan.ch/
>>>>
>>>> NB: the perf benchmark on this site seems incredible, but try
>>>> yourself ...
>>>> I did it and I'm convinced.
>>>
>>> I have no intention even to try something that is not 
>>> open-source
>>> nowadays. It looks nice though, but I will never trust 
>>> something that
>>> is not open-sourced...
>>
>> I am posting anonymously to protect my identity.
>>
>
> Have to say, that being anonymous *and* posting vague 
> accusations with kind of strange proof links BTW all it talks 
> about is "GWAN is not open-source and thus it's bullshit ...".
> Then it lists some security bugs in old version of GWAN that 
> was then hidden from downloads (and for obvious reasons if you 
> ask me).
>
>> You are right to be suspicious of G-Wan. Regardless of the 
>> merits of the
>> software itself, its author is known for his aggressive 
>> propaganda of
>> G-Wan, including attempts to cover up serious past security
>> vulnerabilities.
>
> Hm, yet I never heard about G-WAN at all until somebody brought 
> it up in the NG.
>
>> Have a look here to get an understanding of how far this goes:
>>
>> http://www.wikivs.com/index.php?title=G-WAN_vs_Nginx&action=history
>>
>> More info:
>>
>> http://weblambdazero.blogspot.com/2011/09/human-factor.html
>
> This in fact it contains a bunch of accusations of it's own.
> It's not like I should have posted all this (everybody knows 
> better then to trust anonymous blindly etc.) but just could not 
> resist.

OTOH, it seems to me that a web server that relies on C for 
everything **is** very strongly subject to security issues. The 
code that generates pages must be absolutely bug free before 
being put in production, which is hard with C for anything that 
is not trivial.