From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 29 07:49:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA03869 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:49:25 -0800 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA03760 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 07:49:17 -0800 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA06818; Wed, 29 Mar 1995 23:49:39 GMT Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 23:49:38 +0000 () From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: httpd as part of the system. In-Reply-To: <199503290307.WAA27916@grendel.csc.smith.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 28 Mar 1995, John Fieber wrote: > > I say bring lynx in, but maybe hold off on httpd until it seems > pretty sure that the features of the help system that would use > it will be implemented. I think I've followed this whole thread correctly, and my interpretation is this: we want to have dynamically generated online HTML help and search capabilities, but can't afford the extra disk space an HTTP server requires. Right? Would it be feasible to write a stripped down server that listens to port 80 for only a few specific requests (provide HTML versions of man pages, and a rudimentary search function). I'm sure we don't need any of the security-related stuff in the NCSA or CERN servers, nor the ability to handle MIME, nor the need for server-side includes, or imagemaps, or forms. Well, forms support might be handy. Possible to write a SimpleHTTPD in, say, perl? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org