The latest versions of PWS do support multi-threading and multi-part
attachments (so that we can do file uploads).  See
http://pbl.cc.gatech.edu:8080/myswiki.1 for more on the latest.

Do note some of the cool things that PWS can do that traditional webservers
can't, like:
- Embedded Smalltalk in the HTML file
- CGI's done as flexible "servlets" that can interpret the URL in anyway
they want. (Yes, we're prone to ST-72 problems, but nobody much reads URL's
:-)
- "Pluggable" attachments to Smalltalk applications.

These kinds of things are documented at
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/mark.guzdial/squeak/pws/

I'm all for doing more -- I'm just hoping that the next iteration will
include some of these things that I'm using now :-)

Mark

>John,
>
>>Yes, PWS can act as a plain web-server.  Just set up a ServerAction
>>(change ServerAction class>>#serverDirectory to be your root serving
>>directory first) and that will take care of things for you.
>>
>>On the other hand, PWS is not HTTP compliant, as far as I can tell.  Well
>>it's close, but you know.  I'm getting my hands on building a HTTP/1.1
>>compliant and Apache compatible web-server, with as many modules,
>>including the latest DAV module, with wiki-module as a plus.
>>
>>I don't expect it being publicly available in short.  I would also like to
>>use some help if anybody is interested.
>
>I've built a web server in VisualWorks that is similar to the PWS in
>approach.  It's designed to ride in front of a Smalltalk application and
>takes URLs in a ObjectName.methodName style.
>
>It supports:
>Multithreaded client connections
>User Authorizations
>POST forms
>Parameterized URLs
>Cookies
>Mailing of server messages (Using SMTP)
>Other stuff...
>
>I could probably help out if you need some more hands.
>
>>
>>On 11 Dec 1998, Marc Nijdam wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm just exploring using PWS. Although I really like the wiki concept
>>> and its implementation in Squeak, local users don't appreciate having
>>> to edit pages through the web-browser using a different syntax. I'm
>>> also trying to figure out some different uses for squeak as a
>>> webserver.
>>>
>>> I'm having problems extracting the webserver _only_ part of the PWS. I
>>> would like to start PWS on a root directory, have it serve documents
>>> and directories just like a normal web-server. Then I'll start
>>> plugging in server actions based on page or directory requests
>>> (CGI-maximus ;-)
>>>
>>> TIA,
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>
>>Cheers,         * http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~zhan1
>>John (Zhijiang) *          zhan1 at uiuc dot edu
>>--
>>(^_^) Jesus Loves You
>>
>>
>>
>Jay O'Connor
>joconnor at roadrunner.com
>http://www.roadrunner.com/~joconnor
>
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