iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator's Guide (iTPWebSvr 5.1+)

Introduction to the iTP Secure WebServer
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Features and Standards Supported by iTP Secure
WebServer
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Extensibility
You can enrich your WebServer environment by creating applications that use CGI,
Java Servlets and Java Server Pages. The iTP Secure WebServer supports both
conventional CGI applications and persistent applications by using the parallel
processing benefits of NonStop TS/MP. You can write applications in any of several
popular programming languages, including Java. With the companion product iTP
Active Transaction Pages (ATP), you can also use server-side JavaScript to develop
web-based interfaces for NonStop TS/MP (Pathway), NonStop SQL/MP, NonStop
TUXEDO, and TCP/IP sockets applications.
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Enhanced logging facilities
The iTP Secure WebServer provides an Extended Log Format (ELF) that includes
the access, error, and security information of each request. ELF also provides fields
for logging the web client type, the referring URL, and the request begin and end
times. The fields are all labelled, making the fields easy to parse and new fields easy
to add. The server also supports the Common Log Format (CLF) widely used by
other web servers.
The iTP Secure WebServer does not support the PTrace utility.
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Enhanced event reporting
The iTP Secure WebServer and many related components report events to the
Compaq Event Management Service (EMS). Messages identify the iTP Secure
WebServer subsystem, PATHMON name, and the type of event that occurred.
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Resource Locator Service (RLS)
This service lets you define multiple web servers to be used interchangeably for
access to the same URLs. The requester need not know which server handled a
request.
Features and Standards Supported by iTP Secure
WebServer
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Standards compliance
The iTP Secure WebServer complies fully with:
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Common Gateway Interface (CGI/1.1)
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Java Servlets 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 APIs
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HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.0 and required features of HTTP/1.1)
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL 2.0 and SSL 3.0)
Support for the SSL 3.0 Secure Transport Protocol includes support for
user-specified combinations of encryption and integrity checking. Webmasters
can specify the security algorithms (ciphers) that they want the iTP Secure
WebServer to use.