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{{Short description|Open-source web and FTP server}}
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| title                  = Xitami
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| developer              = iMatix Corporation
| released               = {{Start date and age|1996}}
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| latest release version = 2.5c2
| latest release date    = {{Start date and age|2002|07|24}}
| latest preview version = 5.0a0
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| genre                  = [[Web server]]
| license                = [[BSD Licenses|BSD-like]]<ref>[http://legacy.imatix.com/html/xitami/license.htm Xitami License Agreement] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018093559/http://legacy.imatix.com/html/xitami/license.htm |date=October 18, 2007 }}</ref>
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'''Xitami''' is a [[World Wide Web|Web]] and [[File Transfer Protocol|FTP]] server, originally developed by iMatix Corporation as a free, [[open-source software|open-source]] product from 1996 to 2000. It ran as a single process with a small footprint. It was not as fast as the fastest servers but scaled well.  It supported several web application protocols and was very portable. It also had a web interface to configure the web/FTP server.

In 2009, iMatix launched a new version of Xitami, called '''X5''' (Xitami/5).

== iMatix, developer of '''Xitami''' ==
iMatix is a firm that produced [[free software]] applications, such as the [[ZeroMQ]] high performance message [[Library (computing)|library]], the [[OpenAMQ]] AMQP [[messaging]] service, Libero, the GSL code generator. [[Pieter Hintjens|Hintjens]] was CEO and chief software designer for it.

== History ==
iMatix started the original Xitami server in 1996 as a demonstration of its "SMT" multithreading technology for building protocol servers. The name was chosen at the last minute when the developers realized that their original choice ("Cosmos") had already been taken by another web server that no longer exists.<ref>[http://legacy.imatix.com/html/libero/doc/news9610.txt Liberetto newsletter] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609103515/http://legacy.imatix.com/html/libero/doc/news9610.txt |date=June 9, 2009 }}, December 1996</ref> "Xitami" is "iMatix" spelled backwards.

Xitami was featured in an April 1997 article in Dr. Dobb's Journal.<ref>[http://www.ddj.com/architect/184410426 A portable multithreaded webserver] (Dr. Dobb's Journal, 1 April 1997)</ref>
The web server attracted people looking for a fast but simple web/FTP server, mainly on [[Microsoft Windows]].

Xitami was designed to be portable, and was ported to [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Linux]] and other [[Unix-like|Unices]], [[OpenVMS]], [[BeOS]], and [[OS/2]].  All non-portable functionality was encapsulated in a library layer called SFL (the "standard function library").  SFL was a free and open source project and was used fairly widely in other such projects. In 1999, the Apache web server adopted a similar approach to portability for Apache2, building the [[Apache Portable Runtime]] (APR).

The Xitami team continued to add features until mid-2000 when development of the server stopped except for security updates.  In 2008 multiple <code>[[printf]]</code> vulnerabilities were reported in the final release of Xitami/2.5.<ref>[http://www.bratax.be/advisories/b013.html Security Advisory B013 - Xitami Web Server v2.5c2 Multiple Vulnerabilities] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024182007/http://www.bratax.be/advisories/b013.html |date=October 24, 2008 }}</ref>

== X5 ==
In January 2009 iMatix announced the start of a new Xitami project, version 5, called ''X5''.<ref>[http://www.zyre.com/blog:brand-name-necrophilia Announcement of Xitami/5 (X5) project] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226042716/http://www.zyre.com/blog:brand-name-necrophilia |date=February 26, 2009 }}</ref> This uses the latest generation of iMatix's multithreading technology (''Base2''), making Xitami scalable to multiple cores, while remaining small, and simple. iMatix has stated that it is "designed to handle thousands of connections without difficulty" which makes it ready for [[long polling]], in which client connections remain open for extended durations.
Windows binaries for X5 were released in February 2009 and X5 was used for the first time to run the iMatix Live Zyre website.
X5 shares the same technical framework as iMatix's OpenAMQ message service.

X5 is written in ANSI [[C99]], using a meta-programming approach called "Model Oriented Programming".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070516122601/http://download.imatix.com/mop/ Model oriented programming technology]</ref> X5 was presented at [[FOSDEM]] 2009 as consisting of 3,457 lines of meta-meta code.<ref>[http://www.slideshare.net/pieterh/fosdem-2009 FOSDEM 2009 presentation] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211012906/http://www.slideshare.net/pieterh/fosdem-2009 |date=2009-02-11 }}</ref>
X5 uses [[Apache Portable Runtime|APR]] in place of SFL, and has been run on [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Linux]], [[AIX]], [[Solaris (operating system)|Solaris]], and [[OpenVMS]].

== See also ==
* [[Comparison of web servers]]
* [[ØMQ]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*{{Official website}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130927091349/http://legacy.imatix.com/html/xitami/index.htm Xitami legacy web site]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150124085540/http://legacy.imatix.com/html/xitami/index13.htm#m_1 Xitami FAQ with pronunciation of the name]
*[http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/servers/article.php/15817_3116281 ServerWatch review of Xitami] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229070058/http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/servers/article.php/15817_3116281 |date=2008-12-29 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090226043249/http://www.zyre.com/blog:restms-goes-atomic Implications of RestMS protocol on X5 design]

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