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Bug#309148: marked as done (RFP: wnhttpd -- Small and secure web server - everything is denied by default)

Your message dated Tue, 16 May 2006 11:59:42 -0600
with message-id <E1Fg3pe-0003p1-Cj@merkel.debian.org>
and subject line WNPP bug closing
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : wnhttpd
  Version         : 2.4.6
  Upstream Author : <johnf@wnserver.org>
* URL             : http://www.wnserver.org/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Small and secure web server - everything is denied by default

(Include the long description here.)

Comment from OpenBSD mailing list:

    I'd suggest WN, that has always been one of the most paranoid web
    server so far (everything is denied by default, it will only serve
    files that are explicitely authorized, a la firewall) . The code
    is clean and clearely design to be secure. Plus it has a bunch of
    very useful feature that can even make it a standalone alternative
    to bloated scripting languages like PHP.
    http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0207/msg00698.html

WN is a server for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1. Its
primary design goals are security, robustness, and flexibility, in
that order. One of its objectives is to provide functionality usually
available only with complex CGI programs without the necessity of
writing or using these programs. (Of course CGI/1.1 is fully supported
for those who want it). Despite this extensive functionality the WN
executable is substantially smaller than the CERN httpd, NCSA httpd or
Apache servers.

WN was planned with a focus on serving HTML documents. This means such
things as enabling full text searching of a single logical HTML
document which may consist of many files on the server, or allowing
users to search all titles on the server and obtain a menu of matching
items, or allowing users to download a total logical document for
printing which, in fact, consists of many linked files on the
server. All of these are done in a way which is transparent to the
user (and largely transparent to the maintainer)! The "User's Guide
for the WN Server", which this chapter is part of, provides a good
example of many of these features.

Another feature not found in many other servers is conditionally
served text. Often a server maintainer may wish to serve different
versions of a document to different clients. By adding simple HTML
comments to documents and marking those documents to be "parsed" by
the server, the maintainer can arrange that different sections or
entirely different documents are sent to clients, based on such things
as the client's domain name, IP address, browser type, browser
"Accept" header, "Cookie header", etc. This feature is described in
more detail in the section "Conditional Text: If, Else, and Endif" in
this guide.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

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Hello,

This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or 
are involved with.

Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 365 days.
- It hasn't had any activity recently.

As this is an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not 
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been 
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).

To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:

reopen 309148
thanks bts

Further comments on the work done in the bug sent to
309148@bugs.debian.org would be truly welcomed.
Anyway, if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.

A similar process is being applied to other kind of wnpp bugs.

Thanks for your cooperation,

 -- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org>.

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