httpcd; a http chat daemon

httpcd is a http based chat server. It uses (POSIX)threads, little known mime-types, browserdetection, a bit of nifty javascript and persisitent connections to achieve realtime chat-functionality without any plugins or the latest browser capabilities.

Stable version is 0.5 but a complete rework is in the making. Question is; will it be a codefork() or a continuation ? Anyway, whatever it is, it should provide http content pushing, regardless of the nature of the content.
It will consist of two parts; a library http server (called httpplib) into which callbacks are set, and eventhandling application code. (think chatbox, stockexchange feeds, multimedia).

Configuration needs a bit of study, though, as httpcd is also capable of sending static pages (with variable expansion), has unlimited but nevertheless configurable chatbox namespace (with regexp), has state-maintaining chatboxes, and allows for a backend UNIX socket driven admin protocol, addressable with Perl routines, for example.

httpcd compiles on Linux and FreeBSD, has a small footprint, and requires libpthread (on Linux) and libdb.

Versions:
./httpcd-0_5.tar.gz