Introduction5

HFRD Hypertext Services - Technical Overview

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1 - Introduction




H This document provides an technical overview of the HFRD VMS HyperText KTransport Daemon environment. It is primarily written for use internal to LHFRD and assumes that perpsective without apology. Any additional usage is Nsubordinate to its role within HFRD. The software has been written expressly Ffor supporting an intra-organisational hypertext environment on a VMS Dplatform. It too, is unreservedly tailored to this purpose and the Nrequirements of HFRD. All programs were designed only to specifically comply Owith the requirements of VAX C and DEC C, within a DEC TCP/IP Services for VMS environment. 

: The document assumes a basic understanding of the Jhypertext technologies and uses terms without explaining them (e.g. HTTP, KHTML, URL, CGI, etc.) The reader is refered to documents specifically on Lthese topics (these are often best consulted on-line, on the Internet WWW). 

F Also see ``HFRD Hypertext Environment'' for information on using the HFRD VMS hypertext facilities. "

Reasons For a Local HTTPd



D Reasons for developing a local HTTPd server are few but compelling:






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