Chris Breemer wrote:
> I downloaded and built the NCSA httpd from jazz, and it works fine so far. Ok, I have
> not tried lots of funky stuff yet, but it looks pretty stable. Is there some
> particular reason why you're after the Apache server ?
> What I like to know is: what is the difference between all these webservers. We have
>
>         NCSA httpd
>         CERN httpd
>         Apache httpd
>         OpenMarket Webserver

I'll take a stab at this one.  I don't recall that CERN's was ported
to MPE, but IMHO it is not much of a contender anymore in any market.

The NCSA port is stuck at release 1.3 and is single-threaded (the
primary drawback).

OpenMarket offers a "pool" of server processes which are themselves
multi-threaded.  It is also HP supported, and there is a secure version
available now.

Apache's claim to fame is speed and aliasing (accepts requests from
multiple IP addresses) as well as having a server "pool".  At least
that's my outside viewpoint; never ran it, but looked into it, and
don't know if Mark has the server pool part working in the MPE port.

There are other configuration, security, and feature differences; but
the above is sort of the "executive summary" of the four.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>