A reporter forwarded me a request for general project info. I pointed
him at the Web site, and also offered to write up a few paragraphs on
general project background and future directions. Would anyone object
much if I sent him something like this:
Briefly, we're a group of webmasters with busy servers to manage, who
are trying to produce a server which meets our own needs, and
hopefully those of others. (For instance, the DBM authentication code
was originally written for HotWired, which has a *very* large
authentication database to manage, and has subsequently been used by
other people with similar problems).
Likewise, our multi-hosting capability is there because many members
of the group are ISPs who use it.
Our current working code, hopefully out in the next week or two, is an
upward-compatible with the current release, but it's something of a
refit internally. The major new feature is an API for extensions to
the server functionality --- in fact, in the new release, most of the
server's features (DBM authentication, and even CGI) are actually
implemented as plug-in modules according to the API. The API is quite
flexible; one group member, for instance, has a module which uses the
"cookie" feature of the Netscape browser to track and log click-trails
of users who use the Netscape client. (We'll be shipping this as an
optional module with the new release).
------ The original request follows: ---------
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:05:40 -0400
From: mgoulde@psgroup.com
To: "Robert S. Thau" <rst@volterra.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Background on Apache
Robert:
I am researching an article for my company's publication, "Open Information
Systems". The subject of the article is web servers.
Could you please point me to some background information on Apache?
TIA
--------------------------
Michael Goulde
Editor in Chief
Patricia Seybold Group
148 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
Voice: 617.742-5200
Fax: 617.742-1028
URL: http://www.psgroup.com
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him at the Web site, and also offered to write up a few paragraphs on
general project background and future directions. Would anyone object
much if I sent him something like this:
Briefly, we're a group of webmasters with busy servers to manage, who
are trying to produce a server which meets our own needs, and
hopefully those of others. (For instance, the DBM authentication code
was originally written for HotWired, which has a *very* large
authentication database to manage, and has subsequently been used by
other people with similar problems).
Likewise, our multi-hosting capability is there because many members
of the group are ISPs who use it.
Our current working code, hopefully out in the next week or two, is an
upward-compatible with the current release, but it's something of a
refit internally. The major new feature is an API for extensions to
the server functionality --- in fact, in the new release, most of the
server's features (DBM authentication, and even CGI) are actually
implemented as plug-in modules according to the API. The API is quite
flexible; one group member, for instance, has a module which uses the
"cookie" feature of the Netscape browser to track and log click-trails
of users who use the Netscape client. (We'll be shipping this as an
optional module with the new release).
------ The original request follows: ---------
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 21:05:40 -0400
From: mgoulde@psgroup.com
To: "Robert S. Thau" <rst@volterra.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Background on Apache
Robert:
I am researching an article for my company's publication, "Open Information
Systems". The subject of the article is web servers.
Could you please point me to some background information on Apache?
TIA
--------------------------
Michael Goulde
Editor in Chief
Patricia Seybold Group
148 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
Voice: 617.742-5200
Fax: 617.742-1028
URL: http://www.psgroup.com
---------------------------