On Thu February 16 2006 03:31, you wrote:
How many millions of people use this a day?
I have no idea. Far less than use Apache, of course, but the number appears to be growing steadily. http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/PoweredByLighttpd has a short list of those that bothered to add their names, but that doesn't mean a whole lot and it doesn't say anything at all about the SSL implementation.
SSL is not something you want to use unless the server has been really well battle tested...
Both lighty and Apache use OpenSSL. I'm using it and haven't seen any battlefield casualties so far. ;-) Apache has its share of (even recent) security issues, including some related to mod_ssl. Lighty seems to be fitting well for those that need a smaller, simpler server, which is why I mentioned it. I'll leave it as an exercise for the interested to determine if they want to use it. -- Ron