Minimal web server

Tue Mar 29 22:05:05 UTC 2005

On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:39:50AM -0500, Anton Markov wrote:
> Slightly OT:
> 
> What web server is usually used for web-based configration UIs such as
> CUPS or Webmin? Do they all use a statically-linked version of apache or
> something?

Webmin does it's own thing in perl (miniserv.pl is the webmin web
server), and cups uses IPP for the printer access which is http based,
so it wasn't a big leap to do a web management interface too.  Neither
uses something as huge and overkill as apache.  http is not that hard to
implement.

Lennart Sorensen
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