Introduction

Robin Hood is a free HTTP/1.1 web server for BeOS. It is based on libHTTP, which it requires to run (libHTTP is included with this distribution of Robin Hood; it is also available separately with source code). Robin Hood Web Server is an original work designed from the ground up for BeOS; it contains no ported code.

Features

• Open source code, covered by the GPL.
• Compatible with both BeOS R5 networking and BONE.
• HTTP/1.1 compliant
• HTTP/1.1 Persistant Connections.
• Supports bytes-ranges.
• All requests are handled by dynamically loaded add-on modules. Modules are invoked by MIME type.
• File Handler - File transfer.
• CGI Handler - Invokes CGI scripts.
• PHP Handler - Invokes PHP scripts.
• SSI Handler - Process Server Side Includes.
• Directory Handler - Displays directory listings with Tracker icons.
• Redirect Handler - Redirection of resources.
• 404 Handler - Custom "404 File Not Found" generator.
• CGI support - As specified in the CGI 1.1 Internet Draft 01.
• Supports Parsed Header Output as well as Non-Parsed Header Output.
• Works with shell scripts, Perl, and compiled CGIs.
• Full CGI environment variable support.
• PHP support (tested with PHP 4.0.4pl1)
• SSI support
• Supports: config, include, echo, fsize, flastmod, and exec.
• Full SSI environment variable support.
• Recursive SSI support.
• Supports If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified headers.
• Can automatically send gzip encoded files when the request permits gzip encoding.
• Basic Authenticaton support
• User defined Realms.
• Uses file permissions to control access.
• Virtual Hosts support.
• Virtual Resources.
• Multiport capacity.
• Separation of user interface and server.
• SoftwareValet package for easy installation.

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