History
In 1993, the World Wide Web (WWW) was small but booming. WWW software developers and web site developers kept in touch on the www-talk mailing list, so it was there that a standard for calling command line executables was agreed upon. Specifically mentioned in RFC 3875 are the following contributors:
- Rob McCool (author of the NCSA httpd web server)
- John Franks (author of the GN web server)
- Ari Luotonen (the developer of the CERN httpd web server)
- Tony Sanders (author of the Plexus web server)
- George Phillips (web server maintainer at the University of British Columbia)
The NCSA team wrote the specification, however, NCSA no longer hosts this. (A possible mirror of the original documentation is available.) The other web server developers adopted it, and it has been a standard for web servers ever since. Since its initial adoption an effort was mounted to get it published more formally which resulted in RFC 3875.
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