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 Published by Karl-Henrik Henriksson
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 Date Posted:   August 21st, 2001
 Last Updated:   August 21st, 2001
 License: GPL
 Downloads: 5,687 total; 54 recently
 Page Views: 53,125 total
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8.93 / 10, with 29 votes
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About RobinHood:
Robin Hood is a free HTTP/1.1 web server for BeOS. It 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.

Latest Version
   
Details about this version:
  • Compatible with both BeOS R5 networking and BONE (thanks Nate LaCourse for the simple BONE workaround)
  • You can now specify the index document to use for each Virtual Host, making it (for example) possible to serve .shtml, .php or .wml (WAP) as index pages!
  • Console GUI improvements (colour coding in the console log, an "About" box with a BeBits link button, links to the documentation and the PHP download page in the menu, etc.)
  • PHP Handler (version 1, 2001-01-04) by Daniel Fischer included (with permission)
  • Now distributed in a SoftwareValet package for easy installation
  • Updated documentation (more colour, more info... <g>)
  • New "Powered by BeOS / Robin Hood" banner graphic to put on your website! (located in the "docs" folder)
  • Updated the Robin Hood folder icon to R5 style...
  • Minor fixes


 
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