CERN httpd is a generic hypertext server which can be used as a
regular HTTP server running typically on port 80 to serve hypertext
and other documents, and also as a proxy -- a server on a firewall
machine -- that provides access for people inside a firewall to the
outside world. When running as proxy httpd may be configured to
do caching of documents resulting in faster response times and lower
impact on the network traffic to the outside world.
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CERN httpd 3.0pre6 is available, source code:
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/cern_httpd_3.0pre6.tar.Z
This package includes EVERYTHING, so don't ftp the libwww.
Precompiled binaries are supplied for Sun4, Solaris, HP, NeXT,
Decstation Ultrix and DEC OSF/1 in:
ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin
Sun4 binary is compiled with direct WAIS support.
For Sun4 there is also a cern_httpd_3.0pre6-lresolv.tar.Z which
contains an httpd linked with the -lresolv option.
Online docs:
http://info.cern.ch/httpd/
Note that Ari is now leaving CERN so please, please, direct questions to:
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httpd@info.cern.ch
or use the www-proxy@info.cern.ch mailing list about proxy problems.
To subscribe send the message
subscribe www-proxy Your Name
to www-proxy-request@info.cern.ch.
^^^^^^^
Note that this mailing list is really meant for technical discussion
and not user support, so send dummy questions to comp.infosystems.www
newsgroup :-)).
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CERN HTTPD 3.0 PRERELEASE NOTES 6
3.0 Prerelease 6
* Distribution now contains the ICE indexing package by Christian
Neuss.
* DirAddHref directive by Guenther Fisher.
* Fixed the SIGPIPE bug with POST which caused CGI scripts to exit
prematurely without a reason.
* Fixed the bug that prevented uid and gid from being set correctly
when they were specified in the inlined protection setup (external
file worked fine).
* Fixed the stupid problem with gc_info file not being initialized
with certain gc's.
* SCO support by Brian King (thank you!).
* A-umlaut problem with FTP README files fixed.
* Fixed the bug with conditional GET from the client causing a
closed connection when there was no cache file on the proxy for it
and the remote server sent "Not modified".
* Fixed the bug with proxy URL re-escaping when the original
hostname was in upper-case.
* ~ and : are no longer escaped in automatic redirections.
* Fixed the bug that httpd would try to bind to port in -gc_only
mode.
* ParentUserId and ParentGroupId to set the uid and gid of the
parent process right after binding to port (some people complained
that setuid() is slow on certain systems).
If CacheLastModifiedFactor is Off then CacheDefaultExpiry is used
instead of zero LM factor.
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