I'll throw in one web server too. Today I found the thttpd server written by
Jef Poskanzer. I haven't tried it, only unpacked it and looked around a bit.
The url is http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ and here's the head of the
README file from the source distribution:
thttpd - ti
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
>
> :
> :> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
> :> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
> :> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be bette
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
:
:> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
:> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
:> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better
:> to hack together some kind of front end, or hack ly
On Jun 10, Paul Wade wrote
> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> > From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > The apache/dwww/lynx combo doesn't need X.
> >
> > Try using "boa" instead of apache. It's _much_ smaller, and faster
> > than apache. However, "lynx" itself can execute CGI scrip
>> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
>> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
>> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better
I think they said that lynx can run CGI's without a webserver... *if* that
is true then there
> Hmm. You want to have people run a web browser as root and run cgi
> scripts with root privilage. Please don't make this a default. I
> can't think of any way to make this secure. It would be better
> to hack together some kind of front end, or hack lynx into some
> kind of dedicated engine. The
Quoting Paul Wade ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I will also investigate the use of lynx directly with CGI. I hope that you
> are hinting at something I need: If I run lynx as root and execute an
> 'adduser' CGI script that cannot be executed by others, then I will start
> writing a whole buncha sysadmin C
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > The apache/dwww/lynx combo doesn't need X.
>
> Try using "boa" instead of apache. It's _much_ smaller, and faster
> than apache. However, "lynx" itself can execute CGI scripts, and doesn't
> really need a server to
From: Paul Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The apache/dwww/lynx combo doesn't need X.
Try using "boa" instead of apache. It's _much_ smaller, and faster
than apache. However, "lynx" itself can execute CGI scripts, and doesn't
really need a server to run "dwww".
> Whereever it is safe to do so, this co
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