Changes to The Web Server

WebSTAR is a high performance Web server, capable of serving tens of millions of connections a day.

High performance file info and data caching architecture.
Server provides facilities for Plug-Ins to support persistent connections. The Data Cache and the SSI Plug-Ins take advantage of this new feature in WebSTAR, allowing Plug-In-processed requests to take advantage of HTTP/1.1 pipelining.
Now supports multiple index file names (e.g. index.html, default.html, index.htm) in the main host and all virtual hosts.
Improved WebSTAR Data Cache reduces number of files open at one time.
Persistent CGI connections option will greatly speed up CGI interactions.
For increased server performance, the WebSTAR application reserves more processor cycles by default. This will slow down CGIs, but speed up the server and Plug-In processing. You can override this in the WebSTAR Admin: see Performance .
Improved error handling: if a Plug-In returns an error indicating that the file was not found, the WebSTAR Web server will now handle normal Plug-In processing of the error file (instead of just returning a 404 status code).
Removed a "No Access" warning message that was displayed when an Error file was mapped to an Action.
Updated default Suffix Mapping entries to provide support for Cascading Style Sheets and several new Microsoft application MIME Types.
User names and passwords file now named WebSTAR Web Users instead of WebSTAR.pass .
Three new WebSTAR Log Format logging tokens: STATUS for logging of HTTP header result codes, HOSTFIELD for logging of the hostname requested by the client, CS-SIP to print out the server IP address (multihome aware).
Server Suite and Web server log information now in the WebSTAR Web.log file in the logs folder by default. Archived copies are stored in the archived_logs folder by default.
WebSTAR Admin browser pages have been re-designed and no longer have a text version.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Changes

Now supports SSLv3 as well as SSLv2, with code based on OpenSSL.
Allows multiple certificates, one for each IP address.
Support for multiple X509, X509v3, PKCSv7, Netscape and Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) style certificates
RC4-128, 3DES-112, DES-56, DES-40, RC4-40 and MAC (message authentication only) encryption ciphers.
Improved SSL random number generator is much faster and avoids a great number of extra hashing functions.
New SSL Security panel in the WebSTAR Admin application.