>note that the first web server outside of europe was on the >slac vm system
True, although it's also true it was the first Web server anywhere outside CERN and anywhere outside Switzerland. So it's an even more impressive bit of history. Apparently someone(s) from SLAC attended a conference at CERN, saw this nascient Web technology, thought it was pretty cool, went home and made it work on their VM system rather quickly. This significantly predates the (important) work done at NCSA. Also true that the very first dynamic (interactive, non-static content) Web application exposed a find (search) interface to VM, also done at SLAC. This was way before even the now quaint CGI technologies. Google's Chrome browser is based on the WebKit engine, which is also used by browsers such as Apple's Safari (including Safari on the iPhone), Konqueror, the Nokia Series 60 browser, and Adobe AIR. Thus in terms of HTTP(S) client stack it's not new, so that's all the more reason why existing HTTP(S) server stacks, including all those running on mainframes, should be just fine with it. I'm not expecting any surprises, and if there are surprises they almost certainly aren't going to be unique to HTTP(S) server stacks on mainframes. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
