Robin Hood Web Server Introduction
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Robin Hood is a free HTTP/1.1 web server for BeOS. It is based on
libHTTP, which it requires to run. It is an original work designed
from the ground-up for BeOS; it contains no ported code.
Features
- HTTP/1.1 Compliant
- HTTP/1.1 Persistant Connections
- Supports bytes-ranges.
- CGI Support - As specified in the CGI 1.1 Internet-Draft 01
- Supports Parsed Header Output as well as Non-Parsed Header Output.
- Works with shell scripts, Perl, and compiled CGIs.
- Full CGI environment variable support.
- SSI Support
- Supports: include, exec=cmd, and exec=cgi
- Recursive SSI support.
- SSIs are detected by mime-type, not by extension.
- Supports If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified headers.
- Can automatically send gzip encoded files when the request permits gzip encoding.
- Basic Authenticaton support. Uses file permission attributes to control
access to files and CGIs.
- Virtual Hosts support.
- Multiport capacity.
- Open source code. Covered by GPL.
- Seperation of user-interface and server.
This is the inital release of RHWS. It may still contain serious bugs and
the documentation is not anywhere near complete. Please help the effort to make
RHWS more usefull by submitting sugestions, comments, bug reports/fixes, and any
other support you may wish to offer.
Robin Hood Web Server - A web server for BeOS
Copyright (C) 1999 Joe Kloss
BeOS is a registered trademark of Be Inc.