CERN httpd
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History
CERN httpd was originally developed on a NeXT Computer running NeXTSTEP, and was later ported to other Unix-like operating systems, OpenVMS and systems with unix emulation layers, e.g. OS/2 with emx+gcc. It could also be configured as a web proxy server.[2] Version 0.1 was released in June 1991.[3] In August 1991, Berners-Lee announced in the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext the availability of the source code of the server daemon (named WWWDaemon) and other World Wide Web software from the CERN FTP site.[4][5]
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The original, first generation HTTP server which some call the Volkswagen of the Web.[6]
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The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB).[4][7]
Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library.[1] The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996.[2] From 1996 onwards, W3C focused on the development of the Java-based Jigsaw server.[8]
The initial version was public domain software; the last one was under an MIT License.[9]
See also
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- Comparison of web server software
- Apache Traffic Server
- Web accelerator, which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server, which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy, which discusses origin-side proxies
References
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- ↑ Change History for httpd
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- ↑ The birth of the web Licensing the web on cern.ch (2014, archived)
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External links
- The historic W3C page for httpd
- The historic web site in the W3C archive of November 1992
- CERN republished her first website.
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