Pion is not intended to implement yet another web server, but to provide http(s) functionality to new or existing c++ applications. if you're looking for a full-featured server application, check out apache or lighttpd. if you're working on a boost c++ application and would just like to use http to provide a simple user interface or interact with run-time data, then pion is a clean and simple solution.

pion network library uses the boost and asio libraries for multi-threading and asynchronous i/o. this allows servers implemented using pion to handle many thousands of connections simultaneously with a single physical server.

pion also supports server-side ssl & tls encryption when built with the openssl library (which the debian package is).

this package includes the pion runtime files.