httpd

HTTPd

(World-Wide Web)(Hypertext transfer protocol daemon).

An HTTP/1.0-compatible server, written by Rob McCool of NCSA, for making hypertext andother documents available to World-Wide Web browsers.

HTTPd is designed to be small and fast and to work with mostHTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 browsers. You can customise yourserver to execute searches and handle HTML forms. It alsosupports server side include files, allowing you to includethe output of commands or other files in HTML documents.

The current (1994-08-08) version is 1.3.

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/Overview.html.

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httpd

(HTTP Daemon) A Web server (HTTP server) available from the NCSA for various versions of Unix. Developed at CERN, httpd was the first Web server. Along with the Mosaic browser, httpd and Mosaic provided the first graphical client/server interaction on the Web. See NCSA and Apache.

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Definition

HTTPD➣Http Daemon

HTTPD➣Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Daemon (web server)