Re: advice on httpd sought

Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>

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Subject: Re: advice on httpd sought 
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Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1993 14:13:40 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>

> filter FOO before serving it forth? I glanced through the httpd v 0.4
> from ncsa, but couldn't see any obvious place to do it. Before I roll up
> my shirtsleeves and get hacking, I'd just like to find out if someone's
> passed this way before... 
I think with the NCSA HTTPD (1.0a2 anyway) you would use htbin scripts
and write a gateway (either script or C program).  The NCSA folks might
have some more suggestions.

Plexus HTTPD can also do this.  Information about getting plexus:
    http://www.bsdi.com/server/doc/plexus.html

--sanders