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WWW: The Boa webserver, v0.90

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Sep 26 00:51:48 1995

Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 11:30:18 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

From: paulp@nic.cerf.net (Paul Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: WWW: The Boa webserver, v0.90
Followup-to: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Organization: http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/useless.html
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)

(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,

--
Paul Phillips                                 | "Click _here_ if you do not
<URL:mailto:paulp@cerf.net>                   |  have a graphical browser"
<URL:http://www.primus.com/staff/paulp/>      |  -- Canter and Siegel, on
<URL:pots://+1-619-558-3789/is/paul/there?>   |  their short-lived web site



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