Apple and Apache: a new standard in Web Service; the world's most popular Web server now on the world's most popular Web creation platform.SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 12, 1997-- Caching proxy Web service and virtual hosting Virtual hosting is a method that servers such as webservers use to host more than one domain name on the same computer, sometimes on the same IP address. There are two basic methods of accomplishing virtual hosting: name-based, and IP address or ip-based. now available on Macintosh Tenon Intersystems Monday announced shipment of WebTen, an industrial-strength, high-performance Apache Web server See Apache. for Power Macs. WebTen 1.0 takes advantage of Tenon's unique "UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). virtual machine" technology to support the widely acclaimed Apache Web server as a double-clickable Macintosh System 7 application. Apache runs in Tenon's multi-threaded, preemptive multitasking environment, and has been extended with support for WebStar Plug-Ins and AppleScript CGIs. This dual strategy of supporting both Apple and UNIX Web extensions gives WebTen the largest family of CGIs of any known Web server. WebTen uses Tenon's advanced TCP (1) (Transmission Control Protocol) The reliable transport protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite. TCP ensures that all data arrive accurately and 100% intact at the other end. stack to provide `true' virtual hosting and includes caching proxy Web service. These advanced features, coupled with WebTen's top performance and WebTen's browser interface, create a new standard in Web serving for Apple. Tenon's new offering joins the world's most popular Web creation platform (Apple) with the world's most popular Web server (Apache). WebTen is the fastest Web server on Power Macintosh. WebTen can sustain up to 10,000 connections a minute, or more than 10 million connections a day. WebTen's Apache makes use of Squid -- high performance caching and http accelerator software -- to offload the server and further advance Apache's already top performance. WebTen can also be configured as a caching proxy FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to or HTTP server, reducing local browser access time and bandwidth consumption. WebTen is based on the latest Apache 1.2 with Tenon extensions. Apache 1.2 is fully compliant with HTTP/1.1, which allows for greater performance and efficiency when transferring files. HTTP/1.1 supports "content negotiation" to allow different versions of a single document (e.g. English or French, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. or PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ), and "persistent connections" or "keep alive" to give a faster response when a large number of documents are requested over a single connection. In addition, Apache server-side include (SSI (1) See server-side include and single-system image. (2) (Small-Scale Integration) Less than 100 transistors on a chip. See MSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. 1. (electronics) SSI - small scale integration. 2. ) and extended server-side include (XSSI XSSI Extended Server-Side Includes (Apache) ) directives, which embeds special commands in HTML documents to set variables and test conditions, let users create dynamic Web pages without having to write CGI scripts. Tenon's Apache extensions enable WebTen to support WebStar 2.0 Plug-Ins and Macintosh AppleScript CGIs, as well as standard Apache modules, industry-standard Perl script, shell script and application program-based CGIs. This duality -- support for both Apple and UNIX plug-ins and CGIs -- gives WebTen users the best of both worlds. Because WebTen's multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. execution environment is based on Rhapsody (1) A subscription-based online music service from RealNetworks that gives users unlimited access to a vast library of major and independent label music. Within a single interface, Rhapsody provides access to streaming music, Internet radio and extensive music information and kernel APIs and supports Rhapsody TCP sockets, Tenon's enhanced Apache will easily transition to Apple's next-generation Rhapsody OS. WebTen supports "true" virtual hosting. This is made possible by Tenon's advanced TCP stack, which can replace Open Transport and provide features and performance not yet available with OpenTransport. Virtual hosting lets ISPs and Web providers support multiple Web servers on a single machine each -- with different host names, IP addresses and URLs -- and have them appear to be completely separate sites. With WebTen and Tenon's TCP stack, a Macintosh can support multiple physical interfaces and each interface can have many IP addresses. In situations where IP addresses are not readily available, WebTen's "named" virtual host feature allows the use of the same IP address for multiple virtual hosts. Apache was designed with security in mind. Since WebTen is a Macintosh application, it doesn't suffer from known UNIX security vulnerabilities. The only UNIX daemon that WebTen supports is the Apache httpd. Because the Apache sources are publicly available and because it is the most widely deployed Web server, Apache has received extensive attention in the area of security. When running Apache with Tenon's TCP networking libraries, WebTen is less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks than WebStar, since Tenon's TCP has been modified to resist the "syn" and "ping-of-death" attacks. A WebTen "security kit" that adds SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secured Socket Layer) support will be available this quarter. Using SSL with virtual hosts is only possible using Tenon's TCP stack and IP-based virtual hosting. WebTen's upcoming SSL option will, for the first time, allow Macintosh Webmasters to set up secure connections for virtual hosts. Other supported security features include the ability to "allow or deny" site access based on IP address, subnet mask, domain name or URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. support for "realms" to allow user name and passwords to be applied to specific files or directories, and the ability to limit CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. applications to specific directories. WebTen's Web-based browser interface enables local or remote administration via your favorite browser. Extensive logging options are available, using Macintosh plug-ins or the built-in features of Apache. WebTen 1.0 is available for $495 (U.S.) via download on the Internet at: http://www.tenon.com/products/webten . WebStar 2.0 customers can purchase WebTen for $295 until May 31. Tenon has been shipping award-winning UNIX, X and Internet software for the Macintosh since 1991. Since Apple's NeXT acquisition, Tenon has extended its unique "UNIX virtual machine" technology to produce a set of "Rhapsody-Ready" Internet applications. WebTen is the first offering in this series. -0- NOTE: Tenon and WebTen are trademarks of Tenon Intersystems. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. All other product names are trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Tenon Intersystems, Santa Barbara Anita Holmgren, 805/963-6983 or 888/2-WebTen 805/962-8202 (fax) anita@tenon.com http://www.tenon.com |
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