From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 06:20:04 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA23938 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 May 1995 06:20:04 -0700 Received: from leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.249]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23926 for ; Mon, 22 May 1995 06:20:00 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by leo.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA20112; Mon, 22 May 1995 21:18:33 +0800 Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 21:18:32 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Sean McGee cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WWW without httpd In-Reply-To: <199505180814.IAA23219@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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