Re: Questions: GS web server or firewall

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net>]

Eric Shepherd wrote:
> 
> in article 3A3283CE.E14A14D7@mts.net, Mike Pfaiffer at pfaiffer@mts.net
> wrote on 12/9/00 11:19 AM:
> 
> > This last week I've been asked if it is possible to use the GS for a
> > "modern" internet application. I remember seeing someone say they were
> > using theirs as a low volume web server. I heard from another source it
> > may be possible to use one for a firewall.
> 
> There's not actually any software for either of these yet.  Using it for a
> firewall is probably not realistic, but a web server program should be quite
> easy to write; they're insanely simple programs when you strip away all the
> extra stuff some web servers try to do.
> 
> --
> Eric Shepherd
> Editor
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	Thanks for the info. I was thinking much the same thing about the
firewall (which is why I asked). Do you think you could give a
description of a simple web server... We may try to make it a project
for this years club. I have an idea of what they do but not enough to
start programming one.

				Later
				Mike




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