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Server features

All Web servers share the same basic core functionality. Essentially they have the ability to return HTML documents to Web browsers over the network, and to invoke CGI scripts to generate dynamic documents. Individual servers vary in the additional features they support.

• Mapping URLs to files
• Typing of resources
• Invoking other programs
• Generated directory listings
• Serving users' documents
• Server side includes
• Proxy and caching servers

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.