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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

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