ANNOUNCE: The Boa webserver, v0.90 (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ha...@ooo.lanl.gov>]

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 <pa...@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,
> 
> --
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