Dwarf HTTP Server 1.3.3

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• Overview
  
• Release Notes
• Contact
• Distribution Files

Overview

Dwarf HTTP Server is a full-featured web server with servlet and JSP support. It supports the Java Servlet 2.2 and Java Server Pages 1.1 specification.

Main features:

• multi-threaded server
• dynamically adjusted number of active threads
• Java™ Servlet API 2.2 implementation
• Java™ Server Pages 1.1 (by Tomcat/Jasper)
• HTTP/1.1 support
• built-in SSL support
• WebDAV Class 1 support
• CGI/1.1 support
• IP-based and name-based virtual hosts
• customizable authentication and authorization
• standard and custom HTTP log formats
• extensible session management
• basic and form-based HTTP authentication
• automatic deploying of web applications
• runtime configuration
• full documentation with extensive tutorials
• coding examples with source code
  

See installation instructions for the system requirements.

Release Notes

New features and changes in version 1.3.3:

This is mainly a maintenance release. It requires Dwarf Server Framework 1.2.x or higher for the correct installation and operation.

See the Changes page for the complete list of changes.

Current limitations and issues:

• the persistent HTTP connections may be closed by the server when a JSP page is requested
  
• serving content directly from a WAR file works only if the web application does not use JSP pages and custom classes or JAR libraries
• protection domain of JSP-based code equals to the protection domain of the containing web application
• only the BASIC and FORM authentication methods are currently supported
• all servlets are initialized on startup in the order they appear in the deployment descriptor; the load-on-startup tag is silently ignored
• the distributable, resource-ref, env-entry and ejb-ref tags are silently ignored, too

WebDAV support:

• currently, all resources supported by the WebDAVServlet are Class 1 compliant only
• server tries to auto-detect the encoding used by the client to escape the URLs. However, this may not work for all the cases.
• WebDAV clients which does not use session tracking will cause the server to generate a new session object upon each request, which is very inefficient

Contact

Please report bugs via the Gnome Ltd. web site. Visit the web site for more information about the Dwarf HTTP Server and other products, please.

Distribution Files

Overview of distribution files:

     README-1ST.HTTP.txt - basic information and the quick start guide
     index_http.html     - entry point to the product documentation

     conf/samples/http/java.policy            - standard Java policy
     conf/samples/http/java_restricted.policy - restricted Java policy
     conf/samples/http/jaas.policy            - subject-based policy
     conf/samples/http/charsets.properties    - MIME charsets mapping
     conf/samples/http/encodings.properties   - Java encodings mapping
     conf/samples/http/mimetypes.properties   - MIME types mapping
     conf/samples/http/errcodes.properties    - HTTP error phrases mapping

     conf/samples/http/xxxxx/ - configuration files for the sample applications

     lib/dwarf_http.jar - Dwarf HTTP Server class library
     
     doc/http/      - product documentation
     doc/http/api/  - API documentation

     www/samples/http/ - web content of the sample applications

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