OpenBSD includes a new web server in its base system that is based on relayd and replaced nginx. OpenBSD includes a brand new web server that was started just two weeks before the 5.6 release was finished. Work is in active progress and significant improvements have been done since its initial appearance. But why do we need another web server? This talk is about the history, design and implementation of the new httpd(8). About 17 years ago, OpenBSD first imported the Apache web server into its base system. It got cleaned up and improved and patched to drop privileges and to chroot itself by default. But years of struggle with the growing codebase, upstream, and the inacceptable disaster of Apache 2 left OpenBSD with an unintended fork of the ageing Apache 1.3.29 for many years. When nginx came up, it promised a much better alternative of a popular, modern web server with a suitable BSD license and a superior design. It was patched to drop privileges and to chroot itself by default and eventually replaced Apache…