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The SRE-http For GoServe Web Server |
Demonstration of HTTPD server side includes |
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The SRE-http For GoServe Web Server |
Demonstration of HTTPD server side includes |
1 November 1999
For those interested in a full-featured http/1.1 compliant server for
OS/2, I invite you to try SRE-http.
The home page for this server, and for a wide range of other free, web aware tools
for OS/2, can be found at http://www.srehttp.org.
Please see the bottom of this document for the standard (short) disclaimer.
Summary:
SRE-http ver 1.3h supports the usual http/1.1 web server functions, such as:
- Support for multiple hosts (multiple IP addresses and virtual hosts)
- Support for range-retrieval
- POST, PUT and DELETE http methods are supported.
- Support for GZIP transfer-encoding (both sending and recieving)
- NSCA and CERN server-side imagemaps
- URL redirection
- default documents for directories
- common-log auditing
- CGI-BIN compatability
- digest authentication
In addition, SRE-http ver 1.3h incorporates a number of special
features, including:
- NCSA HTTPD style server side includes are fully supported
- Extraction of a range of resource, using options in the URL
- Documents with server side includes can be "intelligently" cached
- Support for the HTACCESS method of access control
- Support for a "selector-specific" method of access control
- Easily specified client and browser specific customization
- Local and remote (http) virtual directories can be specified and accessed
- Server-side and client-side transparent content negotiation
- Several possible directory specific default documents can be specified
- ... or, "cachable" directory listings can be created
- A simple message box facility is built-in to the server
- ISINDEX-stype searchable indices (on text files) can be readily created
- File upload using FORMS (as supported by Netscape 2.01)
- Load balancing across several servers
- Fully configurable using "on-line" (web accessible) tools
- Customizable response files when a request can not be found (404);
including a "list best matching files" capability.
- Partial support for the delta-encoding
- An event monitor that allows external processes to control the server
To further extend SRE-http's capabilities, several addons are available.
These include:
- A Bulletin Board System; with uploads, downloads, and more..
- Yet another directory display facility, with many options
- Client customization using cookies and server-side includes
- A keyboard driven, on-line scientific calculator
- A "news-group/list-server" discussion group package.
- A directory-indexer/search-engine
- Create and check all urls in a web-tree
- Create a web searchable index of the contents of your site
Feel free to contact me (DANIELH@crosslink.net) if you are interested in
more details (or visit our site at http://www.srehttp.org/).
Short Disclaimer:
SRE-http was developed on personal time, and is not supported,
approved, or in any way an official product of my employer (USDA/ERS). And,
of course, this product is supplied "as is"; with no warranty or guarantee.
The authors furthermore disclaim any and all liability associated with the
use or misuse of this package. For the full disclaimer, please see the
READ.ME file packed with SRE-http.
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