[MacPerl] Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Document contained no data

[David Steffen <steffen@biomedcomp.com>]

>Talking of MacHTTP while messing around with Personal Web Sharing I noticed
>that one of the environment variables was:
>
>SERVER_SOFTWARE=MacHTTP/2.0
>
>which would seem to imply that MacHTTP already comes with OS 8.x , anyone
>got an informed opinion?
             ^        ^
             |        |
     Maybe---+        +---Definitely

AFAIK, the first HTTP server for the MacOS was MacHTTP by Chuck 
Shotton.  Being the first, Chuck had to decide how to map various 
concepts from the Unix HTTP server world to the MacOS (including how 
MacHTTP was going to communicate with CGIs).  Being the first, 
MacHTTP set the standards.  Thus, I assume* what is going on here is 
that personal web sharing is saying "relax - I work just like the 
standard, MacHTTP".  If you've ever collected statistics from a web 
server, you may have noticed that a lot of browsers do the same 
thing, they claim to be Netscape.  Even Internet Explorer used to do 
this (does it still?)

-David-

* ASSUME: makes an ASS out of U and ME
David Steffen, Ph.D.
President, Biomedical Computing, Inc. <http://www.biomedcomp.com/>
Phone: (713) 610-9770 FAX: (713) 610-9769 E-mail: steffen@biomedcomp.com

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