CERN httpd 2.18beta released

luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)

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Subject: CERN httpd 2.18beta released
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CERN httpd is a generic hypertext server which can be used as a
regular HTTP server running typically on port 80 to serve hypertext
and other documents, and also as a proxy -- a server on a firewall
machine -- that provides with access for people inside a firewall to
the outside world.  When running as proxy httpd may be configured to
do caching of documents.  Caching is still in beta test phase.

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CERN httpd 2.18beta is released, source code from:

	ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/src/cern_httpd.tar.Z

This package includes EVERYTHING, so don't ftp the libwww.
Precompiled binaries are supplied for: Sun4, Solaris, HP, NeXT, Fat
NeXT-386, Decstation Ultrix and DEC OSF/1 under:

	ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/bin

Precompiled binaries are all in cern_httpd_bins.tar.Z, which also
includes a default set of icons, and sample configuration files for
normal and proxy use.  README file is now also up-to-date, and may be
useful reading.  The plain httpd binary can be found in the same
directory, too.

For Sun4 there is also a cern_httpd_bins-lresolv.tar.Z which contains
an httpd linked with the -lresolv option.

Compilation for other Unix platforms should not be very complicated.
I would be happy to receive diffs, if any, to make it compile for
other platforms.  Also binaries other than those already on
info.cern.ch are welcome.

Current VMS version is still 2.16beta.

Documentation in:

	http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Guide.html

and a PostScript version [68 pages]:

	http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Guide.ps

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                     CERN HTTPD 2.18BETA RELEASE NOTES
 
New Features
 
     * Long FTP directory listing with last modification dates and sizes.
 
Fixes
 
     * Fixed a bad bug with Port directive -- server didn't fork but
       rather the parent process served which caused the service to
       eventually hang (this is the main reason for this release).
     * CLIENT_CONTROL removed from SOCKS mods since httpd has now native
       proxy protection support.
     * No longer fails to sometimes create .gc_info file.
 
 
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