[TriLUG] khttpd ?

[Jeremy P]

I was reading through some old press releases on the 2.4 kernel, and found
a number of ereferences to something caleld "khttpd" which is supposed to
be a "Kernel web daemon".  It looks like kttpd is a kernel module, and all
configuration is done by echo'ing stuff to appropriate locations in
/proc/sys/net/khttpd/ .  It works by responding to all web requests for
static files; dynamic content requests are then passed on to your nomal
web server.  In the latter case kttpd acts apparently acts as a proxy.

Does anyone use this?  How does it get along with more complex features of
Apache (rewrite rules, SSL, authentication, etc)?  Or is this another one
of those "good ideas" that never really got seriously implemented?

--Jeremy