CERN httpd
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| Developer(s) | CERN / World Wide Web Consortium |
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| Initial release | 24 December 1990 |
| Last release | 3.0A / 15 July 1996[1] |
| Development status | discontinued |
| Operating system | Unix, Unix-like |
| Available in | C |
| Type | Web server, proxy server |
| License | MIT Copyright Statement with acknowledgement to CERN |
| Website | www |
CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) was a web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen[2] and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen.[1] Implemented in C, it was the first ever web server software[3] and went live on December 25th 1990.[4]
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History
CERN httpd was originally developed on a NeXT Computer running NeXTSTEP, and was later ported to other Unix-like operating systems, OpenVMS and systems with unix emulation layers, e.g. OS/2 with emx+gcc. It could also be configured as a web proxy server.[1][3] Version 0.1 was released in June 1991.[5] In August 1991, Berners-Lee announced in the Usenet newsgroup alt.hypertext the availability of the source code of the server daemon and other World Wide Web software from the CERN FTP site.[6]
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The original, first generation HTTP server which some call the Volkswagen of the Web.[7]
The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB).[8][9][10]
Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library.[2] The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by W3C, with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996.[1] From 1996 onwards, W3C focused on the development of the Java-based Jigsaw server.[11]
The initial version was public domain software; the last one was under an MIT license.[12]
See also
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- Comparison of web server software
- Traffic Server
- Web accelerator, which discusses host-based HTTP acceleration
- Proxy server, which discusses client-side proxies
- Reverse proxy, which discusses origin-side proxies
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Official CERN httpd page
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Server Guide: CERN httpd
- ↑ History of the Web
- ↑ Change History for httpd
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ The birth of the web Licensing the web on cern.ch (2014, archived)
