pee-air
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I was looking for a half-assed decent browser to run on my Quadra 950, and I settled on Internet Explorer 4.01. Part of the Internet Explorer archive that I downloaded contained a little thing called Microsoft Personal Web Sharing.
I had never heard of Microsoft Personal Web Sharing before. At least, not for the Macintosh. So I was eager to test it out. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it was actually quite good.
Microsoft Personal Web Sharing is very easy to configure and get running on a 68k Macintosh. It includes a guestbook for visitors of your site to sign, the ability to allow users to send you private messages, a rather comprehensive logging system, perhaps the best site statistics information that I've seen of any web server software for the Macintosh, and, my personal favourite, the ability to mount server volumes in your web browser.
After playing with Microsoft Personal Web Server for a bit, I began wondering what ever happened to it. Was it so wrought with security holes that Microsoft just killed it? It just got me to thinking of why I might not want to run this software on one of my Macintosh computers. Does anyone know why it might be a bad idea to use this software as opposed to say MacHTTP?
I had never heard of Microsoft Personal Web Sharing before. At least, not for the Macintosh. So I was eager to test it out. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it was actually quite good.
Microsoft Personal Web Sharing is very easy to configure and get running on a 68k Macintosh. It includes a guestbook for visitors of your site to sign, the ability to allow users to send you private messages, a rather comprehensive logging system, perhaps the best site statistics information that I've seen of any web server software for the Macintosh, and, my personal favourite, the ability to mount server volumes in your web browser.
After playing with Microsoft Personal Web Server for a bit, I began wondering what ever happened to it. Was it so wrought with security holes that Microsoft just killed it? It just got me to thinking of why I might not want to run this software on one of my Macintosh computers. Does anyone know why it might be a bad idea to use this software as opposed to say MacHTTP?