Bug#194026: 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 -- see
http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed
instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package:
Package: wn
Binary: wn
Version: 2.2.9-2
Priority: optional
Section: web
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.5.6
Format: 1.0
Directory: pool/main/w/wn
Files: 888f5e44071e5000ac8db0c310e298f9 566 wn_2.2.9-2.dsc
8579c3e8bcff7f317741d6dbb5735434 404398 wn_2.2.9.orig.tar.gz
981a1adbd1d27260b0d4ad8760098418 72070 wn_2.2.9-2.diff.gz
Package: wn
Priority: optional
Section: web
Installed-Size: 1516
Maintainer: Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.2.9-2
Provides: httpd
Depends: mime-support, base-passwd (>= 1.2.0-3), logrotate
Suggests: www-browser, perl5, doc-base, dhelp | dwww, man2html, info2www
Filename: pool/main/w/wn/wn_2.2.9-2_i386.deb
Size: 392278
MD5sum: bb10db679595d1a72b6df985738f3c48
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.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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