Monday, January 24 2005 @ 05:31 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
Not sure what I was doing in 1999 when this happened, but apparently I missed AOL open sourcing their web server software. Yes, it's true. I wouldn't make up a story like this. No, and they even released a new version of it, just now. :)
The open source AOLserver Web server project released a new update this week, enhancing the server that powers some of the most trafficked sites on the Internet today, including AOL.com.
Licensed under the Mozilla Public License, AOLserver is, according to its project page, a massively scalable and extensible Web server tuned for large scale, dynamic Web sites."
The AOLserver includes a dynamic page-scripting language, as well as complete database integration. The new release adds one API change and a pair of feature enhancements, including on-the-fly gzip encoding of HTTP responses.
While Apache's Web Server has long dominated the Web server space, AOLserver does have its own advantages. "AOLserver is multi-threaded and has been since 1995, compared to Apache 2, which only recently introduced multi-threading into its design," Dossy Shiobara, AOLserver project leader, told internetnews.com. "AOLserver tightly integrates the Tcl programming language as the primary vehicle for implementing server-side functionality."
