Speaking as the guy who removed that code, the answer is: it was both.
We had people writing to us complaining that their srun program was
falling over, and demanding that we fix it. (Naturally, they weren't
offering to pay, or willing to purchase the server we were trying to
sell). There were quite a few people using it as a full-bore webserver,
despite the "warning, not for production use" spraypainted on the side.
Go figure.
We also discovered a couple of security holes around the same time.
Put that together with an intense desire to not enhance the product
further, and you come to the obvious conclusion. (It was one of the four
products I was supposed to be working on right then. Ouch. Sleep
optional. And all of them free.)
I am glad it's back in though.
This historical by-the-way brought to you by:
Jim
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On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
> > Thanks, I'll try 2.1. I'm curious, if file serving was removed from 2.0
> > for security reasons, why was it reinstalled in 2.1? I'm not complaining,
> > mind you, I personally feel it should've been there all along. I was just
> > wondering about the change of heart.
>
> I don't think it was security reasons. My understanding is that people
> were expecting the JSDK to be a fully supported webserver when it was
> not. We have a fully supported product (JWS), so the decision was made
> to only have the JSDK serve servlets and not files to make the
> distinction clear. Of course, if a web server can't serve files, it's
> pretty much useless for development use, so for 2.1 it's back in. We'll
> just make it very clear in the readme that this is not a commercial
> product, but a reference implementation.
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