MDMA - Multithreaded Daemon for Multimedia Access

Simon E Spero (ses%tipper@tipper.oit.unc.edu)
Thu, 07 Jul 94 00:11:29 -0400


I've cut a preview release of the multithreaded daemon for solaris. You
can grab it from <a href="http://elanor.oit.unc.edu/">.

I've currently cut a binary release, which is in Solaris package format,
and installs into /opt/mdma; I've also taken a snapshot of the source tree,
which is *definitely* not for the squeamish.

The readme follows at the end of the message.

Simon // Remember, this is MDMA so you have to be nice to me

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MDMA - Multithreaded Daemon for Multimedia Access

Simon Spero (ses@unc.edu)

Welcome to pre-alpha release 0.1 of MDMA. MDMA is a new HTTP server
for solaris. on very busy servers like sunsite or ncsa, which handle
over 100,000 requests a day.

MDMA has loads of neat stuff like multithreading, BGI support,
stackable log modules, which I'll write about more when my hands don't hurt
so much.

How to Get:
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MDMA is available via the web from

http://elanor.oit.unc.edu/mdma.html

[NC-17] THIS IS A SNEAK-PREVIEW PRE-ALPHA (i.e. badly broken) RELEASE
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It's not house-trained. It probably won't work. Don't try and use this
release for anything useful. We have made every effort to ensure that
all bits in this package are either 0 or 1. However, these bits may not
be in the correct order and proportion.

Anyone found laughing at the code will be shot at dawn.

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Known Missing stuff

Documentation. Error Message generation. POST support in default file handler. Decent examples Things that will change:

Logging protocol; the protocol for log handlers will be changed to allow a handler to be called for different loggable events

New BGI modules needed:

MAPS Port of ismap handler to BGI CGI Support for legacy applications :-) TCL BGI module with embedded TCL interpreter. USER Support for user name lookup.

Command Line arguments: -----------------------

httpd [-p port] [-r root] [-f fstab] [-d] [-l log-config] [-m mime.types]

-p port) TCP port to listen on DEFAULT: 80 -r root) Base directory for http data DEFAULT: /opt/mdma/html -f fstab) BGI module attachment points DEFAULT: /opt/mdma/etc/mdma.conf -l logtab) Log module configuration file DEFAULT: /opt/mdma/etc/log.conf -m mime) file-name to mime type mappings DEFAULT: /opt/mdma/etc/mime.types -d) Increment debugging level