[Info-vax] Purveyor

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Tue Aug 22 20:20:19 EDT 2023


On 23/08/2023 00:26, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/22/2023 1:37 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-08-22, ultr... at gmail.com <ultradwc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> can you ask Process to port Purveyor to intel OpenVMS? VSI should
>>> assist as they really need to offer a webserver that isn't ported
>>> from unix like tomcat. Purveyor is much simpler to use. >
>> Tomcat Bob ??? Are you confusing it with Apache ?
> 
> There must be some confusion.
> 
> To his defense then there are a few external factors
> contributing to the confusion:
> * "Apache httpd" is a HTTP server, "Apache Tomcat"
>    is a servlet container (or servlet engine), "Apache
>    Software Foundation" is the open source org behind
>    both and a ton of other open source - a lot of Apache
> * CPQ/HP/HPE/VSI has branded "Apache httpd" as CSWS
>    and "Apache Tomcat" and CSWS_JAVA to confuse everybody
> * despite being a servlet container intended to serve
>    Java servlets and JSP pages then Tomcat does serve
>    static content like HTML and graphics just fine (Tomcat
>    even support SSI similar to Apache httpd)
> 
> Arne

Over in here in Britain, we don't want the Apaches following us!

-- 
Chris




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