OS2WWW Overview

Technical

OS2WWW is an enhanced version of an OS/2 port of the NCSA httpd 1.3 with commonly 350% better performance than existing servers for OS/2, therefore its name THE POWER SERVER. It fully supports forms and CGI scripts.

Gold Release

This is the gold release of OS2WWW. It requires IBM's OS/2 version 2.11 or later with IBM's TCP/IP for OS/2 Base Kit 2.0 or later with at least CSD64092 applied to TCP/IP. Users of IBM's Warp Connect have the software they need.

This version supports most of the features of the original NCSA httpd server including:

Compatible with Web browsers using HTTP/1.0
Forms support - executes CGI/1.1, CGI/1.0 and old NCSA scripts with both METHOD=GET and METHOD=POST.
On the fly directory index generation.
Imagemap support (also sometimes called clickable images).
Access Control of directories on the server.
Audit trail of all accesses.
Aliases allow users to see a unified directory structure, even if documents are distributed across multiple network drives.
Redirections allow administrators to move documents to another server without affecting existing references in other documents.
Support for directory requests of "/path" as well as "/path/".
Server side includes.
Access control on a per-directory basis.
Common log format logging.

Enhancements:

Much improved speed through its multi-threaded architecture.
Easy installation without editing complex configuration files.
Usage and performance statistics available while the server is operating.
A full set of request and response traces and logs to track client and server problems.
Support for directly specifying Imagemap configuration files within the URL, avoiding the need to maintain a global configuration file for all imagemaps.
Support for the nearest POINT method in imagemaps.
Store documents with long HPFS filenames, or with FAT 8.3 filenames. Users specifying a long filename automatically access the equivalent FAT 8.3 file if OS2WWW is running on a FAT partition.
Path names can use either Unix style / or DOS style \ to separate directory names.
Server scripts can be written in REXX or can be an OS/2 executable written in any compiled language.
Command line options to set priority and alternative document root directory without modifying configuration files.

Features to be supported in Scream version:

Dramatic performance improvement
SSL security
SHTTP security when industry standard available
Proxy server
Unified security and configuration across WWW, FTP and Gopher servers.

Licensing and Copyright

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Author: CompuSource
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