SRE-http
SRE-http is a highly configurable http/1.1 web server for OS/2. With advanced features such as remote configuration, virtual hosts, caching and SSI; SRE-http is powerful enough for technically proficient administrators, but simple enough to be maintained by non-technical users. In addition, the Rexx based GoServe API (as augmented by SRE-http's numerous extensions) offers significant development advantages when creating web based applications, and when otherwise crafting a customized and enhanced web site.
To use the SRE-http web server, you will need GoServe (a free, IBM EWS, OS/2 Internet server).
Features
SRE-http supports the usual server functions, including:
- CERN and NCSA image maps
- URL redirection, and a simple form of load balancing
- default documents for directories
- common-log, browser-log, and referrer-log auditing
- access controls by HTACCESS-file, by request selector, and by realm (SSL is not currently supported)
- CGI-BIN compatibility
In addition, SRE-http ver 1.3h incorporates a number of special features, including:
- an event manager (allows external processes to control SRE-http),
- supports several forms of delta-encoding,
- GZIP content (and transfer) encoding.
- support for hit-metering trees
- content-encryption using a shared-secret
- http/1.1 features include byte range retrieval, server-side and client-side content negotiation, and support for multiple (virtual) hosts
- a remotely executable configuration, with plenty of on-line help
- a variety of cached server side includes (and conditional includes) are supported
- META elements in the <HEAD> can be used to respond to HEAD method requests
- local and remote (http) virtual directories can be specified and accessed
- a caching directory display facility (with auto-description capabilities) to handle open-ended requests
- file upload using FORMS (as supported by Netscape 2.01) and the HTTP PUT method
- caching of recent requests (to suppress false recording of "new hits")
- dynamic assignation of "short-term" privileges to clients
- support for GZIP encoding (both sending or receiving)
- lots of documentation & samples (but can there ever be enough?)
- a growing list of WWW-aware applications provide BBS, discussion group, and numerous other features.
Documentation
Links
- http://www.srehttp.org/server/ [Version 1.3h]
License
- Open Source under the GNU GPL V2 license
- Author: Daniel Hellerstein