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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: httpd
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 11:57:21 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960226.75E6AD8.AC56@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <4g1gcv$lc5@horus.mch.sni.de> <19960218.7653A70.11A72@contessa.phone.net> <4ghgqu$efg@horus.mch.sni.de>
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- In <4ghgqu$efg@horus.mch.sni.de>, teicher@limburg.mch.sni.de (Thomas Eicher) wrote:
- > : > My NCSA httpd (from the Amosaic ppl) does not want to serve
- > Well, I can't seem to run a C-Program with a POST method.
- > If you did manage to, please send me some source code ! (both C and HTML)
-
- The source at http://www.phone.net/cgi-src/ all compile and run on the
- NCSA httpd. In particular, I used imagemap, mailmap and getstats on
- them. However (big point) I had also tweaked that CGI support.
-
- > : > Or are there any better / more compatible httpd's for AmiTCP ?
- > : > I tried AWS but it was even less complete.
- > : In what way? The CGI support in AWS is generally better than that in
- > In the way that the docu said that cgi support is an add-on module
- > that I would have to pay for but is not available yet.
- > Did I get an old version ?
-
- I think you miunderstood something. CGI support has always been an
- add-on module. The module has always been free. I don't think there
- has ever been a release of AWS that didn't include the CGI module,
- though lately they've been unbundled to allow seperate udpates.
-
- > : the NCSA httpd, though PATH_TRANSLATED isn't available. In particular,
- > : POST support is the same as the best available from httpd.
- > Theoretically, POST sends to stdout and reads from stdin.
- > What's so hard about it ?
-
- Nothing - if you have a box on which sockets are just a special type
- of file to the OS, and will be inherited properly. Where this isn't
- the case, you have to do something to interconnect them. All the Amiga
- web servers I know of that did POST use the TCP: device. The one for a
- stack that doesn't support that doesn't do POST.
-
- There are also security issues involved; some versions of HTTPD (all
- released versions???) had a major hole that allowed remote users to
- issue arbitrary CLI commands on your machine.
-
- <mike
-