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This directory contains the Abyss HTTP server component of XML-RPC For C/C++
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(Xmlrpc-c).
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This was derived from the independently developed and distributed
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Abyss web server package in 2001. Since that time, work has stopped
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on package except for a non-free derivative of it that the original
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author has done. He uses the Abyss name for that.
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So this is now strictly a piece of Xmlrpc-c. Some day, we should change
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the name to avoid confusion with the old code on which it was based and
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the current non-free version.
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But for Xmlrpc-c, we don't want to enhance this much. That would
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duplicate the vast amount of work that has gone into other HTTP (web)
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servers such as Apache. If someone needs fancy HTTP service for
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XML-RPC, he should use Apache. One can use Apache with Xmlrpc-c
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either by using an Apache request handler plugin or by using a CGI
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script. Abyss is just for very simple servers, where the complexity
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of using (or even acquiring) Apache would not be warranted.
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Everything besides what's in the src/ directory is just historical --
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it comes from the original Abyss in 2001.
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