Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:59:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Francis_Dub=E9?= <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX Message-ID: <490F583C.6040806@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <490F50F2.5050706@optiksecurite.com> References: <490F50F2.5050706@optiksecurite.com>
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