Projects
What
can I find here?
The Mephistoles Internet Suite includes so far a HTTP server,
a FTP
server, a DNS
caching server, a NetBIOS
client and a www-client that can fetch pages via HTTP (other protocols
planned). Most programs are written in Perl and are thus quite small
(but need a perl-installation).
What are the goals of this project?
My goal was to understand completely the programs that were listening
for connections on my computer. Call it paranoia, but I was feeling
uncomfortable with Apache's
thousand-and-one options.
And then, I needed a program that allowed CGI-scripts to be run as
root. Until today, I never figured out how to use apache to do this...
(BTW: Boa can do this and is also a
light-weight http-server. You might want to check it out!)
That's all nice and dandy, but is it
usuable?
Most programs are. Check the status
page!