WASD Hypertext Services - Technical Overview

WASD Hypertext Services - Technical Overview


1st July 1997

Revised for version 4.2 release of the WASD VMS Hypertext Services HTTP server (July 1997).

Supercedes: 1st June 1997 (v4.1), 1st October 1996 (v3.4), 1st December 1995 (initial freeware release, v3.1), 9th August 1995 (v2.3), 1st May 1995 (v2.1)

Please Note

As of July 1997 High Frequency Radar Division (HFRD) underwent a change of role and name. It is now Wide Area Surveillance Division (WASD). This package has been renamed in accordance with that.

NOTE: This document needs more time spent on it. It is unsatisfactory in many respects.

Abstract

This document is a technical overview of the implementation of the WASD VMS HyperText Transport Daemon. It contains information on server configuration and CGI scripting, as well as brief descriptions of the major code modules of the server.

Also see ``WASD Hypertext Environment'' for information on using the WASD VMS Hypertext Services.

Author

Mark G. Daniel
Senior Information Technologist
Wide Area Surveillance Division
Defence Science and Technology Organisation

Mark.Daniel@dsto.defence.gov.au

+61 (8) 82596031 (bus)
+61 (8) 82596673 (fax)

PO Box 1500
Salisbury
South Australia 5108

Printed Copy

For Hypertext browsers a PostScript version of this document is available viewing and for printing.

Some of the online demonstrations may not work due to the local organisation of the hypertext environment differing from WASD where it was originally written.