On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/13/2010 10:41 AM, Noirin Shirley wrote: >> >> If we're going to do a massive sed, my preference would be for Apache >> HTTPD and HTTPD, because the capitalisation avoids the confusion >> between httpd-the-server and httpd-the-command, and it's fewer words >> :-) > > Please note, Apache httpd [always lower case] is the httpd (short name) > application program from the Apache Software Foundation. Apache HTTP Server > is the title of the program. The letters HTTPD in upper case are nonsense, > because HTTP is capitalized as a specification and acronym, while httpd > is lower case following the convention that the program is installed with. > > Introducing "Apache HTTPD" [omiting Server], or "HTTPD" or "Apache Server" > all serve to further confuse this landscape. And this is certainly not > the work of the Apache HTTPD Server Project ;-)
+1, strong preference for "Apache HTTP Server" in the vast majority of non-heres-the-name-of-an-executable references. -- Eric Covener [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
