FYI
A glance at Boa page suggests that it has enough shortcomings
to not look like a serious competitor for Apache/NCSA/Netsite.
Rob T's going to love the bit about nph-like CGI :-)
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Forwarded message:
> From: Paul Phillips <paulp@cerf.net>
>
> (Followups to comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, please)
>
> I'm releasing Boa a little bit eariler than I'd like, but if I don't
> do it now it may be a while. <URL:http://www.cerf.net/~paulp/boa/>
> Here's an excerpt from the README:
>
> This is the Boa webserver, version 0.90beta. Boa is a singletasking
> http server. That means that unlike traditional webservers, it does
> not fork for each incoming connection, nor does it fork many copies of
> itself to handle multiple connections. It internally multiplexes all
> of the ongoing http connections, and forks only for CGI programs
> (which must be separate processes.)
>
> The primary design goals of Boa are speed and security, though it may not
> achieve reasonable speed; we'll see. [...]
>
> Boa is written in C and currently only runs properly on Linux. It is
> distributed under the GNU general public license. I hope some of you find
> it interesting and/or useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Paul Phillips | "Click _here_ if you do not
> <URL:mailto:paulp@cerf.net> | have a graphical browser"
> <URL:http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/> | -- Canter and Siegel, on
> <URL:pots://+1-619-558-3789/is/paul/there?> | their short-lived web site
A glance at Boa page suggests that it has enough shortcomings
to not look like a serious competitor for Apache/NCSA/Netsite.
Rob T's going to love the bit about nph-like CGI :-)
-=-=-=-=-
Forwarded message:
> From: Paul Phillips <paulp@cerf.net>
>
> (Followups to comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, please)
>
> I'm releasing Boa a little bit eariler than I'd like, but if I don't
> do it now it may be a while. <URL:http://www.cerf.net/~paulp/boa/>
> Here's an excerpt from the README:
>
> This is the Boa webserver, version 0.90beta. Boa is a singletasking
> http server. That means that unlike traditional webservers, it does
> not fork for each incoming connection, nor does it fork many copies of
> itself to handle multiple connections. It internally multiplexes all
> of the ongoing http connections, and forks only for CGI programs
> (which must be separate processes.)
>
> The primary design goals of Boa are speed and security, though it may not
> achieve reasonable speed; we'll see. [...]
>
> Boa is written in C and currently only runs properly on Linux. It is
> distributed under the GNU general public license. I hope some of you find
> it interesting and/or useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Paul Phillips | "Click _here_ if you do not
> <URL:mailto:paulp@cerf.net> | have a graphical browser"
> <URL:http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/> | -- Canter and Siegel, on
> <URL:pots://+1-619-558-3789/is/paul/there?> | their short-lived web site