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2 unusual facts about Web server


Igor Sysoev

Igor Sysoev (Russian: Игорь Сысоев) is the creator and developer of the nginx Web server and founder of NGINX, Inc..

Internet Content Adaptation Protocol

At the core of this process is a cache that will proxy all client transactions and will process them through ICAP Web servers.


Asterisk Gateway Interface

It is similar to the CGI feature of web servers in allowing any language to be used for writing the external program which communicates with Asterisk via stdin and stdout.

Bien Logic

Employees of Bien Logic contributed articles about standardization of web server log files and analysis of their content.

Lamp box

The term "lamp box" is also used to refer to a computer running the LAMP solution stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP), and generally used as a web server.

Media server

It may be a simple Network-attached storage, a Home theater PC (HTPC) running Windows XP Media Center Edition, MediaPortal or MythTV, or a commercial web server that hosts media for a large web site.

PSGI

PSGI or Perl Web Server Gateway Interface is an interface between Web servers and Perl-based Web applications and frameworks that allows writing portable applications that can be run as standalone servers or using CGI, FastCGI, mod perl, et al.

Referer spoofing

Referer spoofing is typically done for data privacy reasons, in testing, or in order to request information which some web servers may only supply in response to requests with specific HTTP referers.

Rob Hartill

Robert Hartill (Born 30 January 1969 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a computer programmer and web designer best known for his work on the Internet Movie Database website and the Apache web server and is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

Search appliance

The Clusterpoint Search Appliance software package includes Crawler, Web server, high speed scalable document-oriented database, management application and customizable web-GUI based search application.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

Zeus Technology

Zeus' original product, first released in 1995, was Zeus Web Server which became known as one of the highest-performance web servers for Unix and Unix-like platforms.


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ArsDigita Prize

All first runners-up received a free trip to the computer research laboratories at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seats at a two-day seminar taught by Philip Greenspun, lunch with David D. Clark, Tim Berners-Lee and Michael Dertouzos, dinner with Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, and access to a Web server for life.

Cross-site scripting

Another mitigation present in Internet Explorer (since version 6), Firefox (since version 2.0.0.5), Safari (since version 4), Opera (since version 9.5) and Google Chrome, is an HttpOnly flag which allows a web server to set a cookie that is unavailable to client-side scripts.

Directory traversal attack

When Microsoft added Unicode support to their Web server, a new way of encoding .

Dynamic HTML

This includes pages created by client-side scripting, and ones created by server-side scripting (such as PHP, Perl, JSP or ASP.NET) where the web server generates content before sending it to the client.

FlickRocket

The server will then generate web shop integration HTML code, either as an external link to the customized FlickRocket web shop on the FlickRocket web server or as HTML for usage within an IFrame embedded in another web site.

JHTML

The system is derived from earlier forms of CGI programming that allow a program running on a web server to generate HTML dynamically.

NGINX, Inc.

NGINX, Inc. was founded in July 2011 by Igor Sysoev, Chief Architect of the nginx web server, to provide commercial products and support for nginx.

Pseudonymity

It is possible, in theory, to create an unlinkable Wikipedia pseudonym by using an Open proxy, a Web server that disguises the user's IP address.

Redirector

URL redirection, URLs rewritten prior to processing by a web server

Saetta Web Server

Saetta Web Server can deploy dynamic HTTP content on a network using SAAPIs, server-side applications written in the C or C++ programming language, or in PHP with the embedded PHP module for PHP web pages, or the CGI handler for scripts.