have you ever been in an empty lab with an htpd server - late at night? You can HEAR it when Mozzilla hits the site. Two or three Mozzilla users at the same time will kill your server. Unless, I understand, it uses your server software for which you charge money.

Wrong wrong wrong, not true, false, unsubstantiated, in error. Attached is a note from the author of WinHTTPD that answers a similar accusation made in news last month. Marc

Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.users Path: flop.mcom.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!rdenny From: rdenny@netcom.com (Robert Denny) Subject: Use WinHTTPD 1.3e! (was: Everyone Please Read!...) Message-ID: <rdennyD027tJ.528@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) References: <3bcqc1$s7e@news.doit.wisc.edu> <3bfkrg$4a4@huron.eel.ufl.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 02:48:54 GMT Lines: 21

In <3bfkrg$4a4@huron.eel.ufl.edu> chris@surgery.ufl.edu (Chris Barnett) writes:

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There must be something wrong with your server. I'm running WinHTTPD1.3e on a 486-33 w/8MB o' ram and I don't have any problems with Netscape. I use Netscape all the time and I've had lots of people using Netscape access my server without any problems at all. Granted, there is practically nothing on my site (people that said they would write homepages for their divisions haven't yet), but I do have a pretty steady load of users and I haven't had any problems. Asking everyone else on the Net to change simply won't work.

The irritating thing about this affair is that I have been very vocal about the latent problems that Netscape uncovered in my server, and I fixed them as fast as anyone could possibly hope for... I posted an announcement here, and most every day I reply to some message with the URL of the Windows HTTPD server's home page. My mail address is all over the docs, and I have no record of the gentleman asking me about the problem...

I know, "quit whining and get a life!"... :-)

-- Bob

-- Marc Andreessen Netscape Communications Corporation Mountain View, CA marca@mcom.com