This is the "WebSTAR Server Suite Default Page". This TEST page is served by a web server running WebSTAR server software. This server has not yet been set up by the webmaster to serve the actual web site. If you have received this page and are not the webmaster, please contact the webmaster to inform him/her that the server is not properly configured. This server is not administered by 4D, Inc.
If you are the webmaster, congratulations! Your WebSTAR server is up and running. Now replace the 'default.html' file with your actual home page.
WebSTAR Server Suite 4
WebSTAR Server Suite is a set of easy to use Internet servers for the Mac OS, providing support for Web, FTP, Mail and Proxy services. In addition to supporting a TCP/IP-based application for remote administration of these services, WebSTAR Server Suite includes a number of other technical features, including:
Web Server (HTTP, HTTPS/SSL)
• High performance Web server, capable of serving tens of millions of connections a day.
• Full support for the HTTP 1.1 protocol, including persistent connections and byte-range requests.
• Support for single-link IP multihoming, virtual domain and language-based routing.
• High performance file info and data caching architecture.
• SSLv2 and SSLv3 support on a per-IP address basis, including support for multiple X509, X509v3, PKCSv7 chained, Netscape chained and Server Gated Cryptography (SGC) style certificates, and RC4-128, 3DES, DES-56, DES-40, RC4-40 and MAC-only encryption options.
• Enhanced Server-Side-Includes featuring an extensible architecture allowing Plug-Ins to register custom HTML tags for processing on SSI pages.
• Support for processing of Mac OS-based CGIs, WebSTAR API-based Plug-Ins, Java Servlets and communicating with WebObjects-based applications.
• Lasso-based publishing of FileMaker Pro and ODBC databases
• Robust Realms and/or Allow/Deny-based security architecture.
• Search engine for indexing sites, including support for extraction of text from PDF files.
• FlexMail form-processing utilities. Administrators can generate multiple customized email messages from form data, save form data to disk, and write new HTML files to disk based on form input.
• Support for Tomcat, which serves Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). 4D, Inc. also provides a Tomcat installation for Mac OS 8.6 or 9.x, but does not provide technical support for this open source software.
• WebSTAR and 4th Dimension (4D) relational database integration via WebSTAR 4D Connect and 4D Link plug-ins.
FTP Server
• User level access control privileges for uploading, downloading, creation and deletion of content.
• Support for MacBinary II and III encoding standards.
• Limiting of folder content size on a per user-basis.
• Supports resuming of FTP file transfers.
• Features support for "log-on", "log-out" and folder messages.
Mail Server (SMTP, SMTP/ESMTP, IMAP4, POP3, APOP, MIME, LDAP)
• Full support for SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), ESMTP (Extended Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), IMAP4 (Internet Message Access Protocol), POP3 (Post Office Protocol), APOP (Authenticated Post Office Protocol), MIME (Multipurpose Interent Mail Extensions), including limited LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for email alias and address lookups.
• Support for multiple domains and user accounts on individual or multiple domains.
• Customizable interface for Web-based access to account mailboxes.
• Robust routing of configuration of outgoing SMTP messages.
• Advanced relay blocking and Allow/Deny security for the prevention of unsolicited "spam" email.
• Remote viewing and control of the outgoing mail queue.
• Full support for 8-bit messages.
• SMTP/ETRN support for intermittent Internet connections.
Proxy Server (HTTP)
• Advanced HTTP caching architecture for reducing network bandwidth demands.
• Support for upstream Proxy servers.
• Security architecture for preventing Proxy access from and Proxy access to individual hosts and web sites.
Tools & Examples
- Overview of some of the tools and example files included with the WebSTAR Server Suite.