Re: Questions: GS web server or firewall

[Mike Pfaiffer <pfaiffer@mts.net>]

Eric Shepherd wrote:
> 
> in article 3A3410DC.4BF85138@mts.net, Mike Pfaiffer at pfaiffer@mts.net
> wrote on 12/10/00 3:33 PM:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Well, a simple web server would only have to implement HTTP/1.0, which only
> has like three commands; you can find the specification at
> http://www.w3c.org.

	Just three... This might be something to consider. If it is only V1.0
it might end up being slightly faster than other machines doing V4.X.
Still, to be useful maybe a subset of V2.X could also be implemented.

> In general, the main commands are HEAD, which returns information about the
> specified document, and GET, which actually returns the header followed by
> the document itself.
> 
> The protocol is very easy to implement.  In C it can be done (on a Linux
> type environment) in just three or four pages of code.

	For a GS, Assembler might be better.
 
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