Recent changes to SRE-http

Note on SRE2002

Ver 1.3h contains the following changes & additions: An SRE-http event manager (allows external processes to control SRE-http) Support for delta-encoding, and experimental support for rsync differencing. On-the-fly GZIP content-encoding is now supported (in addition to on-the-fly GZIP transfer encoding) Faster GZIP encoding (uses a rxgzlib.dll instead of GZIP.EXE) Minor improvements to the installation program, improvements to the DoGET program, etc. What would you like to see? Features added to recent versions include : Ver 1.3g : selector specific limits on number of simultaneous requests improved support for advanced http/1.1 features, including transparent content negotiation and cache-controls. Support for hit-metering trees (RFC2227) Significant upgrades to the realm definition method of specifying selector-specific attributes. Ver 1.3f: Several XSSI Apache-style server side include directives, including nested if-elseif-else conditional ssis. Selector-specific attributes can now be specified via a realm definition file (this complements & replaces the use of SRE-http's .IN files). Ver 1.3e: Ver 1.3e supports content-encryption based on a "shared-secret". In addition to encryption of responses, SRE-http supports a javascript based method of encrypting elements in a FORM. A dynamic/encrypted password procedure, providing "digest-like" authentication to http/1.0 clients You can now specify host & port specific parameter files. sreLite: A smaller-quicker-less_feature_rich version of sre-http is now available. A "pre-reply" procedure (a hook) can now be run just prior to returning content to the client (the content can be modified). Wild card matching (of selectors to alias, access-control, and public_url entries) can now be limited to be "within a directory". Return a list of "closest matching filenames" when a non-existent resource is requested (instead of the generic 404 response) Y2K compliant