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 NetForge 0.40 Manual:   The HTTP Server 

The HTTPServer class implements the HTTP protocol in version 1.0 as specified in RFC 1945. It dispatches HTTP request to responders which answer them. Responders are mounted in areas which form a partition of the server's namespace.

Frontends are special Responders which operate on file-like resources provided by a Backend. The following Frontends are available:

There are also some other Responders which do not operate on file-like resources and are thus not subclasses of Backend:


Last modified Jun/26/1998 by Stefan Zeiger