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- N e t p l e x
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- HTTP server for RISC OS 3.1 or later
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- by David Thomas, © 1996-7
- version 0.20 (25 Jan 1997)
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- Documentation _____________________________________________________________
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- The documentation for Netplex is supplied in HTML format which you should
- read using your preferred web browser. Make sure you have your browser
- loaded and then choose ‘Help’ from the Filer menu.
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- Installation ______________________________________________________________
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- Before attempting to run Netplex you should install the new version of
- System supplied by copying it over your existing copy †. You should also
- copy the SysLog application to a convenient writable location and run it to
- ensure it knows its location.
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- † RISC OS 3.5 users should note that the Configure utility’s ‘System’
- window does NOT work. You should instead open up !Boot.Resources
- and copy !System across directly.
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- Changes ___________________________________________________________________
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- Notable changes and additions since the last released version (0.11) :
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- - Support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 Keep-Alive connections
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- - Support for Imagemaps through a new CGI program
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- - Server choices expanded and editing code separated out into a new
- program, called NpChoices
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- - Greatly expanded CGI support - header fields are now available. CGI
- system also extended to cope with HTTP/1.1 and Keep-Alive
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- - Server slot reduced by 4K to 40K
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- - Whereas 0.11 required a Inet$FullName variable to be set, 0.20 will
- try to determine the machine’s name from the available system variables
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- - Connection statistics
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- - New ‘friendy’ log levels ;)
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- - Files are now kept open while serving - buffering should be improved
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- - Netplex will now report ‘Request Entity Too Large’ if the client tries
- to PUT a file that the disc does not have enough space for
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- - Fixed name resolution for ANT users
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- - Some problems with system variables corrected
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- - Particularly nasty bug found, it caused large files on slow-ish
- connections to become partially corrupted
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- - Reimplementation of the timeout code.
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