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HTTPD for Windows

 HTTPD 1.3 for Windows is an adaptation of the NCSA Web server by Robert Denny of Alisa Systems, Inc., that preserves virtually all of the features of the Unix version and is available at no cost. It runs on Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 3.11, and works with most of the Windows Sockets packages that are available (some WinSock packages were not designed to support servers, but this is the exception rather than the rule). It supports the following features:

• Configurable mapping of URLs to files and scripts.

• Configurable typing of resources.

• Access authorization mechanism.

• Automatic generation of directory listings as HTML documents.

• Server-side inclusion in HTML documents.

• Has the ability to access personal information using its special Windows CGI back-end interface. With this interface, the Windows server can use Visual Basic as a scripting language, which in turn can use OLE, DDE, and OCBC to access information from a wide variety of desktop sources as well as client-server relational databases. It is also possible to use Excel or other personal applications as back-end scripting engines.

• Has the ability to decode HTML forms data. The Windows CGI interface carries each form field to the back end in key-value form, ready to use.

The Windows Web server supports up to 16 simultaneous accesses, and can deliver 8-10 documents per second if used on a 486/33 machine. This makes the Windows server suitable for a wide variety of uses as a personal Web server. Installation is straightforward. It can run `out of the box' if installed on a system with a known good WinSock package. Configuration is virtually identical to that for the NCSA httpd 1.3 for UNIX (see Section ). Consult the server's home page for FTP instructions, latest versions news, and contributed add-ons, scripts, statistics analysis packages, and so on.

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
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