{"id":37,"date":"2006-06-05T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-06-05T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T04:24:57","slug":"mongrel-web-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mongrel-web-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongrel web server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/ruby\/blog\/2006\/05\/post.html\">interview with Zed Shaw<\/a>, the author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mongrel.rubyforge.org\/\">Mongrel web server<\/a> &#8212; a web server for the Ruby programming language that is good for use in combination with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubyonrails.org\/\">Ruby on Rails<\/a> and other Ruby-based web-app frameworks. It&#8217;s interesting in that it&#8217;s fast, secure, cross-platform, and it&#8217;s not a heavyweight solution (compared to Apache). Why is it more secure than Apache at the HTTP protocol level? Mongrel utilizes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.queensu.ca\/home\/thurston\/ragel\/\">Ragel State Machine Compiler<br \/>\n<\/a> to generate the protocol parser, &#8220;and that is very strict and seems to block a huge number of attack attempts simply because it is so exacting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interview with Zed Shaw, the author of the Mongrel web server &#8212; a web server for the Ruby programming language that is good for use in combination with Ruby on Rails and other Ruby-based web-app frameworks. It&#8217;s interesting in that it&#8217;s fast, secure, cross-platform, and it&#8217;s not a heavyweight solution (compared to Apache). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/mongrel-web-server\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mongrel web server&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-security","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}