Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of In Process Web Server in C

[Jaime E. Villate]

> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> Saurav Mohapatra <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: In Process Web Server in C
> System name: ceti
> This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> I plan to develop a free open source lightweight in-process Web Server 
> Component in C , that can be instantiated and used inside a program. The 
> target Platforms are win32 and linux. The inspiration for this project is 
> Jetty(http://jetty.mortbay.org/jetty/index.html) which is a Java web server 
> that can be used as a in-process as well as a stand alone server.
> 
> I plan to implement the project in three phases :
> 
> Phase I
> ==========
> a) Win 32 version of the Web Server.
> b) Support for GET command
> c) Definition of Custom URLs based on Handlers. e.g GET /Config might point 
> to a Handler Method rather than an actual URL.
> d) baseline support for HTTP/1.0
> Phase II
> ===========
> a) support for POST
> b) Linux Port
> c) Support for HTTP/1.0
> 
> Phase III
> =========
> a) Servlet Engine (Tentative)
> b) Installation and Packaging details.
> 
> My motivation for this project is that even though there are a lot of free 
> open source HTTP Client libraries, there are not many(at least i could not 
> find any) HTTP Server Libraries.
> 
> The Final shape of the server should be as  a DLL or an so provided with an 
> SDK for extending the Handlers.
> 

We can only accept your project here after you reached phase II. And even then
we will have to make sure that the GNU/Linux version does not depend on any
proprietary software.

We only host projects that can be used in a completely Free Software system,
without having to install any proprietary packages. If you can guarantee that,
you can then provide versions for other systems as well (releasing then with a
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Regards,
Jaime