Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:46:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff <jeffh@Cybernetics.NET> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950325174349.29455A-100000@server0> In-Reply-To: <199503251933.NAA25987@bonkers.taronga.com>
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On Sat, 25 Mar 1995, Peter da Silva wrote:
> Second, on why we want it... it's *not* to run as a web server. It's to
> provide a single interface to online documentation. You can point your lynx
> or netscape 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.
If this is the reasoning behind including an http daemon with FreeBSD,
I would suggest using the WN http daemon. My reasoning behind this is
that it is fast, fairly easy to configure, and has some wicked-cool
features built in such as context sensitive searches, title searches,
etc, that would be _perfect_ for on-line documentation; it's a match made
in heaven.
Any comments?
Jeff
-- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net -------------------------------------
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