litespeedtech/openlitespeed

Our high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server

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OpenLiteSpeed Web Server

Description

OpenLiteSpeed is a high-performance, lightweight, open source HTTP server developed and copyrighted by LiteSpeed Technologies. Users are free to download, use, distribute, and modify OpenLiteSpeed and its source code in accordance with the precepts of the GPLv3 license.

This is the official repository for OpenLiteSpeed's source code. It is maintained by LiteSpeed Technologies.

Documentation

Users can find all OpenLiteSpeed documentation on the OpenLiteSpeed site, but here are some quick links to important parts of the site:

Get in Touch

OpenLiteSpeed has a Google Group. If you find a bug, want to request new features, or just want to talk about OpenLiteSpeed, this is the place to do it.

c-plus-plus

http2-server

http3

openlitespeed

quic

servers

webservers

Project health

Overall

3.2/10

Maintained

10/10

Code review

1/10

OpenSSF Scorecard

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Michael Jackson

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152 followers · starred Jul 2022

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