From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 25 14:46:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA16395 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:46:40 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA16388 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 1995 14:46:39 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA29585; Sat, 25 Mar 95 17:46:07 EST Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 17:46:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff To: Peter da Silva Cc: Charles Henrich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Shipping w/ HTTPD BAD IDEA In-Reply-To: <199503251933.NAA25987@bonkers.taronga.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.