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+# KHttpd
+
+This is a threaded (pthreads) HTTP 1.1 compliant server. It was created as an excercise in learning more about C.
+
+Not intended for production, it has not had sufficient testing to ensure that it is secure and reliable.
+
+## Libs
+
+Other than Pthreads and Magic (for content type detection) the only external code is from [Joyend Http Parsing lib][1]
+for parsing http requests and [UTHash][2] for managing linked lists, arrays and strings.
+
+[1]: https://github.com/joyent/http-parser
+[2]: https://troydhanson.github.io/uthash/