Bug#106564: O: wn -- Secure and efficient http server with advanced features.
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
The current maintainer of wn, Jean Pierre LeJacq
<jplejacq@quoininc.com>, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore,
I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer,
please take it -- retitle this bug from 'O:' to 'ITA:', fix the
outstanding bugs and upload a new version with your name in the
Maintainer: field and a
* New maintainer (Closes: #thisbug)
in the changelog so this bug is closed.
Some information about this package:
Package: wn
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 1512
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.2.9-1
Provides: httpd
Depends: mime-support, base-passwd (>= 1.2.0-3), logrotate
Suggests: www-browser, perl5, doc-base, dhelp | dwww, man2html, info2www
Filename: dists/woody/main/binary-i386/web/wn_2.2.9-1.deb
Size: 392766
MD5sum: 0cc6ae229c0389c1370803d24ff93dd9
Description: Secure and efficient http server with advanced features.
WN is a server for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1). Its
primary design goals are security and functionality usually
available only with complex CGI scripts without the necessity of
writing or using these scripts. This includes extensive
security checks, full text searching and conditionally served
text.
.
Despite this extensive functionality the WN executable is
substantially smaller than the CERN or NCSA servers. Both a
stand-alone daemon and a version intended for use under inetd
are provided. The inetd version is designed to minimize the use
of system resources and it is appropriate for moderate or
lightly loaded servers which cannot be totally dedicated to Web
serving.
.
WN's security model is based on the use of a small flat database
in each directory with information about the files in that
directory. Fields associated with a file include its title, and
may include keywords, expiration date and any user defined
fields like author or document id. Unlike other servers, the
default action for WN is to deny access to a file. A file can
only be served if explicit permission to do so has been granted
by entering it in this database.
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