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Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

215 mentions on Hacker News by 121 people: 22 stories, 193 comments · first 2015-04-28 · latest 2026-10-06

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    Caddy 2.6 is out, the biggest release since Caddy 2
    story by kdunglas · 2022-09-20 · 7 comments
  2. …make them opt-in. At least until the performance regression can be addressed. Update: PR opened: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5042 - hoping to land that before 2.6.
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-16 · in 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
  3. …route and make it opt-in instead. Expect to see a way to toggle metrics soon! Update: PR opened: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5042
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-16 · in 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
  4. …[1]: https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/1570442275339239424 (thread) [2]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4644 [3]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5042
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-16 · in 35M Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
  5. …[4]: https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go/issues/341 [5]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4707
    comment by otbutz · 2022-09-16 · in Pingora, the proxy that connects Cloudflare to the Internet
  6. Caddy v2.6 is making huge improvements here. See https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/5022 But also, please don't take benchmarks like this as gospel. Run your own benchmarks, on your own hardware, with your own config. Someone else's…
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-09-09 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
  7. …in the JSON format. e.g. `strip_path_suffix` and `http_redirect` for the `rewrite` handler ( https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2011#issuecommen... ), which would be a more ergonomic way to set a rule to strip trailing slashes…
    comment by asb · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
  8. …way to count; but I am very open to improving this! Feel free to submit a proposal or a PR. Ref: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/50748e19c34fc90882...
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
  9. Oh hey HN. This is in the Caddy 2.6 beta already: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.6.0-bet... - please try it out! Thanks to Marten Seemann for maintaining the quic-go library we use. (I still haven't heard whether Go…
    comment by mholt · 2022-09-08 · in Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
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    Caddyhttp: Enable HTTP/3 by Default
    story by fariszr · 2022-09-08 · 115 comments
  11. Over all time, yes, but look at the last ~year: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/graphs/contributors?fro...
    comment by mholt · 2022-08-29 · in A handy guide to financial support for open source
  12. > I'm not sure I'm even the top code committer at this point you are, by a lot: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/graphs/contributors
    comment by svnpenn · 2022-08-29 · in A handy guide to financial support for open source
  13. …so that it would match general expectations. The issue I think you're talking about is this one: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2894 . Early on in v2 betas, we opened the discussion to get community feedback about the…
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-08-25 · in The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
  14. FYI, I just revamped how Caddy handles encoded slashes: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4948 It's much smarter now. Caddy also doesn't stop if a certificate can't be obtained. When did you last try? Maybe a big was fixed but it…
    comment by mholt · 2022-08-24 · in The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
  15. …Found it - they did switch to Apache 2.0, remove all usage restrictions and open-sourced it all https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786
    comment by folkrav · 2022-08-24 · in The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
  16. Yes, no longer applicable. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-08-24 · in The future of Nginx: Getting back to our open source roots
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    Caddy Server: Smarter path matching and rewriting (PR)
    story by simongr3dal · 2022-08-12 · 0 comments
  18. …added plugin support for templates, so you can write your own template functions if you'd like! https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4757
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-08-09 · in Astro 1.0 – a web framework for building fast, content-focused websites
  19. …Thanks again for the reply / example. 1. https://github.com/caddyserver/xcaddy#command-usage 2. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy-docker/blob/master/Dock... 3. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/tree/v2.5.1 4.…
    comment by donmcronald · 2022-05-24 · in NGINX Proxy Manager
  20. …): ``` localhost { reverse_proxy h2c://localhost:50051 } ``` It works like a charm. [0] https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/e4ce40f8ff04240540...
    comment by m_sahaf · 2022-05-19 · in Nginx Modern Reference Architectures
  21. Yep! We have it working here: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4739 It's a generic setup where you can do _anything_ you want via firing off an HTTP request as a clone of the original, and re-handling the request after getting…
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-05-05 · in Tailscale Authentication for Nginx
  22. …with Authelia to test it out, would be cool to get it working with another Go auth server! See https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4739
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-05-05 · in Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
  23. …been working on making the Forward Auth usecase viable with Caddy, and we just got it working today https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4739
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-05-05 · in Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management
  24. No. See https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786 And to be clear, only builds produced by the official Caddy website used to be commercially licensed (not anymore). But the code has always been open source, and you could always…
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-04-27 · in Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
  25. …By not supporting this out of the box the maintainer is causing a ton of sites to be faulty. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1632
    comment by charcircuit · 2022-04-27 · in Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
  26. …some time developing it, essentially it's just a module which implements this interface: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/c...
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-04-26 · in Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
  27. …the "Show HN" on this one, as he authored more commits to Caddy during this timeframe than I did: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/graphs/contributors?fro... He and several other maintainers, community helpers, distribution team…
    comment by mholt · 2022-04-26 · in Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
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    Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
    story by francislavoie · 2022-04-26 · 112 comments
  29. …from the core team with the community. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30870862 [1]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/go.mod
    comment by coder543 · 2022-03-31 · in How Go mitigates supply chain attacks
  30. Here's caddy's go/tls wrapper with e.g. ACME, OCSP stapling: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/master/modules/cad... Django-ca also does OCSP and certbot-compatible ACMEv2 w/ known limitations:…
    comment by westurner · 2022-03-24 · in Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
  31. …There's definitely some good points being made in this article, and I adjusted the PR accordingly. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/4507
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-03-06 · in The perils of the “real” client IP
  32. …for plan9 for the moment because of a dependency of Caddy's that has a compatibility problem https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/3615#issuecommen... ). Caddy also doesn't have to run as root, nor does it by default with our apt/yum…
    comment by francislavoie · 2022-01-31 · in Does my site need HTTPS?
  33. …complex modules. You could definitely use it as a basis to have your CMS based on this module. [0]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/tree/master/modules/cad...
    comment by Loic · 2022-01-31 · in Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)
  34. …to do properly, but I'm willing to bring it over to Caddy 2 with a sufficient sponsorship. [1]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/v1/upgrade.go
    comment by mholt · 2022-01-04 · in Upgrading Executable on the Fly
  35. …and want to help make Caddy's basic auth even better, feel free to contribute or sponsor: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy
    comment by mholt · 2022-01-01 · in Using HTTP Basic Auth in 2022
  36. …during our CI actions to ensure that releases are always verified to be signed by Matt's key. See https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3932 Specifically, commit https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/commit/1d473ae924f0d52c... (which…
    comment by francislavoie · 2021-11-29 · in Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
  37. …followed up on publicly :\ [1]: https://twitter.com/caddyserver/status/1338324878441603073 [2]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.2.1
    comment by itsjloh · 2021-11-29 · in Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
  38. …when renewing/obtaining a certificate failed, something that i utterly hate when web servers do: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/642 Admittedly, things are a bit better now: https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#errors I…
    comment by KronisLV · 2021-11-29 · in Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
  39. In case you missed it: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786 Those issues are a thing of the past. There's no use bringing it up again, tbh. > like acting as a cache That's fair, we have a WIP cache module here…
    comment by francislavoie · 2021-11-29 · in Caddy – Open-source web server with automatic HTTPS
  40. Caddy switched their license way back in 2019 making it completely open source and free to use https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786
    comment by BilalBudhani · 2021-09-10 · in Show HN: Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps
  41. …https://github.com/figma https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets
    comment by pdevr · 2021-08-24 · in Ask HN: What are the best publicly available FAMANG code repos?
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    Caddy 2.4 Released
    story by mholt · 2021-05-10 · 1 comment
  43. …Caddy would be stuck with expired certificates. https://caddyserver.com/docs/automatic-https#errors https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.3.0
    comment by francislavoie · 2021-03-07 · in Let's Encrypt's performance is currently degraded due to a DDoS attack
  44. …and code. Code search is also invaluable for this; I recommend Sourcegraph: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/caddyserver/caddy Edit: One other valuable piece is explaining why the architecture is the way it is. Our architecture.md doc…
    comment by mholt · 2021-02-06 · in Architecture.md
  45. ▲ 6
    Caddy Version 2.3 Released
    story by open-source-ux · 2021-01-04 · 0 comments
  46. ▲ 6
    Caddy v2.3.0
    story by theBashShell · 2021-01-01 · 0 comments
  47. …organizations, teams and sites easily. We built Meli on top of Caddy, a very powerful HTTP server ( https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy ). We've used Typescript, Node (backend), React (frontend) and MongoDB for the database. It's a beta,…
    comment by gempain · 2020-12-11 · in Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites
  48. > even using the same libraries for most of the functionality Actually no, not anymore. https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3621 > because there’s demand for it, today We've only seen the demand from you. Nobody else. One individual…
    comment by francislavoie · 2020-11-25 · in Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
  49. If you want the background story: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1632 This is all from four years ago. And kuschku hasn't taken no for an answer after all this time. It's frustrating and annoying to hear their complaints on…
    comment by francislavoie · 2020-11-25 · in Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
  50. …through ACME. You can even view them in your ZeroSSL dashboard. [1]: https://caddyserver.com [2]: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/pull/3862
    comment by mholt · 2020-11-23 · in Another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt