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There are many WWW servers available, and more seem to be released
each month. We shall list all the known servers, but there's not
space here to go into details on each of them, so we'll concentrate on
a few of the more popular ones.
At the time of writing CERN's ``list of available servers''
lists the following servers. We don't give the individual URLs here, as
some of them would become out of date too quickly - instead we encourage
you to look at CERN's list first.
- CERN HTTPD.
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The W3 daemon program, full featured,
with access authorisation, research tools, and so on.
This daemon is also used as a basis for many other types of server and
gateways. Can also act as a caching proxy server. Authors: Ari Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk, Tim Berners-Lee
Platforms: Unix, VMS.
- NCSA HTTPD.
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The other very widely used WWW server for Unix systems. It is written in C, and is freely available in the public domain.
Many features are similar to CERN's HTTPD. An MS Windows version is also available with most of the features of the Unix version.
Platforms: Unix, MS Windows
- GWHIS Server.
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Specialised WWW Servers.
Commercial, from Quadralay, Inc.
Platforms: Unix
- Netsite.
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Commercially supported server from Netscape Communications Inc.
Platforms: Unix
- GN.
-
A single server providing both HTTP and Gopher access to the
same data. In C, General Public License.
Designed to help the transition of servers from gopher to WWW.
Platforms: Unix.
- Plexus.
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Tony Sander's server originally based on Marc VanHeyningen's Perl Server,
but incorporating lots more stuff, including an Archie gateway.
It is available in the public domain.
Platforms: Unix.
- MacHTTP.
-
Server for the Apple Macintosh from Chuck Shotton at the University of
Texas at Houston. It is shareware, in that you can retrieve a copy to evaluate, but then must pay to register it.
Platforms: Apple Macintosh
- SerWeb.
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SerWeb is a WWW server that runs under Microsoft Windows 3.1. It's
fairly simple, and really needs a dedicated machine to run.
Platforms: MS Windows 3.1, MS Windows NT
- WEB4HAM.
-
Another windows based server.
Platforms: MS Windows
- HTTPS for Windows/NT.
-
Server for Microsoft Windows NT from Chris Adie at the University of Edinburgh.
Faster than SerWeb on Windows NT due to being multi-threaded.
Platforms: Windows NT on Intel and Alpha architectures.
- OS2HTTPD
-
An OS/2 server, written by Frankie Fan.
Platforms: OS/2
- KA9Q NOS
-
An internet server package for DOS that includes HTTP and Gopher Servers.
Platforms: DOS
- VAX/VMS Server.
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Server for systems running DEC VAX/VMS from David Jones at Ohio State University. Uses DECthreads for speed.
Platforms: VMS
- REXX for VM.
-
A server consisting of a small C program which passes
control to a server written in REXX. C part by Tim Berners-Lee, REXX part by Bernd Pollermann, both at CERN.
Platforms: VM
- HTTP for VM.
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By R.M. Troth.
Platforms: VM
- Jungle.
-
Server in Tk/TCL being written by Lindsay Marshall at the University of Newcastle, UK.
Platforms: UNIX
- CL-HTTP.
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CL-HTTP is a full-featured, object-oriented HTTP server written in Common Lisp by John Mallery at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
Platforms: Symbolics Lisp Machines and ports are underway to Lisps for the MAC
and other platforms.
We shall concentrate on NCSA and CERN's HTTPDs for UNIX platforms and
MacHTTP for Apple Macintoshes.
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Jon Crowcroft
Wed May 10 11:46:29 BST 1995