From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA20696 for caml-redistribution; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:29:01 +0200 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA20298 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:00:22 +0200 Received: from cadet.inria.fr (root@cadet.inria.fr [128.93.11.17]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id OAA12414 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 14:00:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from cadet.inria.fr (rouaix@localhost.inria.fr [127.0.0.1]) by cadet.inria.fr (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA30809 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:57:43 +0200 Message-Id: <199606181157.NAA30809@cadet.inria.fr> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.4 10/10/95 To: caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Subject: Announce: The V6 Web Engine X-uri: http://pauillac.inria.fr/~rouaix/ X-Face: (0Y_n(V51BL8=yDki='|>_Gh+\:mC&`q1xHDEP?Pj'5{"Mqg(`"P3@"sREkk`E Sender: weis Yet another hack for the Web in Caml: OVERVIEW: The V6 Engine is to the Web what pipes are in Unix systems: a compositional device to combine document processing. To be easily integrated in the Web architecture, V6 is available as a personal proxy. Relying on a common skeleton architecture and Web related libraries, V6 can be easily configured to support various sets of filters while remaining portable and browser independent. The filters may act on the requests emitted by the browser (or other web client) or on the document returned by a server, or both. In the current release (Release 1), the available filters include - flexible caching - request redirection - HTML filtering (based on NoShit) - global history - on-the-fly full text indexing (requires FFW) V6 can be used to support many other navigation aids and Web-related tools in a uniform, browser independent way. In addition, V6 can also be used as a traditional http server: this is particularly useful to serve private files without needing access to the site-wide http server, or to interface to local, private applications (mail, ...) through the CGI interface. V6 is written in Objective Caml. This version runs only on Unix platforms. It has been tested mostly on Linux (1.2.13 ELF), but is known to run on Alpha OSF1, Solaris, SunOS 4.1.x. CONTENTS: INSTALL instructions for installation LICENSE license and copyright notice Makefile main Makefile README this file ffw.diffs Diffs for the FFW 2.4 full-text indexer config/ template configuration files html/ HTML files for internal V6 services kernel/ Core V6 Engine main/ V6 launch misc/ miscellaneous library modules/ service components and filters tester/ Simple performance tester tools/ various utilities COPYRIGHT: All files in this distribution are copyright 1996 Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA) and distributed under the conditions stated in file LICENSE. They can be freely redistributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the copyright notice remains attached. INSTALLATION: See the file INSTALL for installation instructions on Unix machines. DOCUMENTATION: A preliminary version of the V6 manual is available by anonymous FTP, as described below. AVAILABILITY: The complete V6 distribution resides on ftp.inria.fr and can be accessed by anonymous FTP: host: ftp.inria.fr (192.93.2.54) directory: INRIA/Projects/cristal/Francois.Rouaix/V6 or through a Web browser at The V6 Home Page is located at BUG REPORTS AND USER FEEDBACK: Send your bug reports and suggestions by E-mail to: Francois.Rouaix@inria.fr -- Francois.Rouaix@inria.fr Projet Cristal - INRIA Rocquencourt