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- World-Wide Web server software
- W3 SERVER SOFTWARE
-
- A W3 server, like the ftp daemon , is a program which responds to
- an incoming tcp connection and provides a service to the caller.
- There are many varieties of W3 server software to serve different
- forms of data.
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- Basic W3 servers
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- CERN server The basic W3 daemon program serves files
- already in hypertext or plain text. This
- daemon then is used as a basis for many other
- types of server and gateways .
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- NCSA server A server for files, written in C, public
- domain. Runs on top of a gopher-style
- database just like "gopherd".
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- Perl server from Marc VanHeyningen at Indiana
- University. Wriiten in perl.
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- Perl server Tony Sander's version of Marc VH's.
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- REXX for VM A server consisting of a amall C program
- which passes control to a server written in
- REXX.
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- Whatever server you are running, you will probably be interested
- in:
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- Tools for information providers
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- Syle Guide for Online Hypertext
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- Making a new server
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- This daemon is often used as a basis for a more specific server for
- a given application. A server which allows a world of data to be
- seen as part of the W3 universe is known as a gateway. (Most
- servers could therefore be regarded as gateways, but the term
- implies some conversion or mapping between dissimilar worlds) .
- For short tutorials with examples, see:
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- Writing a server in C
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- Writing a server as a script
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- It is a good idea to pick the basic daemon or one of the servers in
- the list as a starting point when making a new server.
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- Other servers and Gateways
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- These are servers which provide data extracted from other systems.
- they are built using code from the basic daemon, or scripts. See
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- List of Gateways available .
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- Tim BL
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- About documents generated from hypertext
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- Paper manuals generated from hypertext are made for convenience,
- for example for reading when one has no computer to turn to. We
-