Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:11:23 -0500 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> Message-ID: <199503252211.OAA15034@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>From henrich Sat Mar 25 17:10:04 1995 remote from crh
Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA
To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:10:04 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199503251933.NAA25987@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Mar 25, 95 01:33:23 pm
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> First of all, on the subject of cern versus ncsa... I've used both. In fact I'
> using both. CERN is at least twice as fast, and has a lot more features. The
> only problem is that it's a little hairier to configure. This can be resolved
> by providing a decent sample configuration.
NCSA's is very very fast, I use it to server well over 3 million documents a
month, and the server its on never breaks a load average of 1, nor do you even
notice the web is running there. Its small tight and compact, CERN is big and
bloated, I digress however, a religous war is precisely what I do not want,
which is precisely why providing a server as part of the OS is not a good idea.
>Second, on why we want it... it's *not* to run as a web server. It's to provid
>a single interface to online documentation. You can point your lynx or netscap
>or mosaic to a file: url, but you can't do cgi that way. And it would be so
>cool to provide a cgi interface to man.
Online documentation that relies on CGI scripts would "suck" (for lack of a
better term). In that situation there is no good way to create printed
documents from the online help system, and it also forces one to use a web
client such as lynx. How long before man pages become useless web pages (ala
AIX who chose to support a web-like useinterface to documentation that is 10
times more a pain in the ass to work with than man)..
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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