I saw that lighty has been moved back into the tree, which is great news. As I understand it, using lighty will make captive portal really snappy but what are the other benefits we can expect to enjoy from the transition?
Have you followed the mini_httpd bugs threads? That alone makes it worth it.
Other than that:
- fast-cgi
- additional caching
- bsd license
- output-compression
- doesnt need to fork for every incoming connection