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Kernel mode web servers: A clever optimization or a security nightmare?

I was reading a Hacker News thread where one user posts a link from 2011 explaining that IIS is much faster than most other (*nix) web servers. Another user replies, explaining that IIS gets that advantage by having a kernel module called HTTP.sys. To my knowledge, most other popular web servers in 2015 do not do this.

User sessions in a web server; speed or persistence?

I’m looking to implement sessions for a web server that I’m developing in my free time. Currently, it had cookie support, so users could implement their own session management, but this is something that should be handled by the web server. I’m faced with two secure options:

User sessions in a web server; speed or persistence?

I’m looking to implement sessions for a web server that I’m developing in my free time. Currently, it had cookie support, so users could implement their own session management, but this is something that should be handled by the web server. I’m faced with two secure options:

User sessions in a web server; speed or persistence?

I’m looking to implement sessions for a web server that I’m developing in my free time. Currently, it had cookie support, so users could implement their own session management, but this is something that should be handled by the web server. I’m faced with two secure options:

User sessions in a web server; speed or persistence?

I’m looking to implement sessions for a web server that I’m developing in my free time. Currently, it had cookie support, so users could implement their own session management, but this is something that should be handled by the web server. I’m faced with two secure options:

User sessions in a web server; speed or persistence?

I’m looking to implement sessions for a web server that I’m developing in my free time. Currently, it had cookie support, so users could implement their own session management, but this is something that should be handled by the web server. I’m faced with two secure options: