From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 14:12:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA15044 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:12:00 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA15034 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:11:58 -0800 Message-Id: <199503252211.OAA15034@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA03491; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:11:23 -0500 Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:11:23 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Apparently-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1528 Sender: henrich > 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/