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Date:      Mon, 22 May 1995 21:18:32 +0800 (CST)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
To:        Sean McGee <smmcgee@ncbc.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WWW without httpd
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950522211541.19382F-100000@leo>
In-Reply-To: <199505180814.IAA23219@localhost>

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On Thu, 18 May 1995, Sean McGee wrote:
> 
> My questions are:
> What is the catch?  Have I missed something?

    A real Web server also sends MIME headers to the client to tell it
when the data was last modified, the type of data, etc.

> Yes, I know.  This is very CHEAP. But it costs nothing.

    Neither does NCSA httpd.  Nor CERN's server.  Come to think of it,
the Apache and WN servers are all free too.  Gee.  :)
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org




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