Webshare is a freeware VM/CMS HTTP server from Beyond Software. It has the basic HTTP/1.0 functionality suitable for learning about the web and how to integrate it into your VM system. Once you start doing real applications or putting a significant load on your web servers, you will want to look into obtaining a commercial product with better performance, features and support.

Here is a more complete description of Webshare as well as a comparison to EnterpriseWeb/VM.

There is a VM World Wide Web discussion list, WWW-VM@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. You may subscribe by sending e-mail to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu. In the body write "Subscribe WWW-VM Yourfirstname Yourlastname". In a couple of minutes you will receive a response confirming your request and providing further instructions.

This package is completely independent from Unix HTTPD implementations. It is written entirely in REXX with CMS Pipelines. (no C anywhere; which is not to say that there's anything at all wrong with C)

Please read the license agreement.

Webshare Features

• Works with DB2WWW
• CGI Scripting in REXX
• User-defined Web spaces (the tilde hack)
• Control over CGI scripting from user-defined webspaces
• redirection ("this file is really here"
  handled automatically by most clients)
• Transaction logging
• Works with SFS or minidisks or a mixture
• INDEX HTML (for SFS directories)
• Forms support by either GET or POST method
• Three basic file conversions: text (ASCII), binary, and
  "record oriented" (big-endian 16-bit for LRECL <= 65535)
• filetype to MIME content-type mapping
• multi-lingual support
• IMAGEMAP (rect only)
• Online help

To use Webshare effectively, it helps if you know HTML. Here's a few pointers to get you started:

• A Brief History the the World Wide Web
• HTML 3.2 Reference Specification
• Beginner's Guide to HTML
• World Wide Web Consortium

Recommended reading for novice and expert webspinners:
David Seigal's Home Page.

Webshare Software

The current version of Webshare is 1.2.4. That is, in IBM speak, "Version 1 Release 2 Mod 4".

Some comments from Webshare's author

This is free software. I wrote it because a) I love VM, and b) I'm impressed with World Wide Web technology, and it seemed that VM should be a player.
Rick Troth.