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Modified README.md to describe new aserve release (compression,
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AllegroServe has these components:

* HTTP/1.1 compliant web server capable of serving static and
dynamic pages
* HTML generation facility that seamlessly merges html tag
printing with computation of dynamic content. The HTML
generator matches perfectly with the HTML parser (which is
in another project) to allow web pages to be read, modifed
in Lisp and then regenerated.
* HTTP/1.1 compliant web server capable of serving static and dynamic pages
* HTML generation facility that seamlessly merges html tag printing with
computation of dynamic content. The HTML generator matches perfectly
with the HTML parser (which is in another project) to allow web
pages to be read, modifed in Lisp and then regenerated.
* HTTP client functions to access web sites and retrieve data.
* Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for both the server and client.
* Web Proxy facility with a local cache.
* Comprehensive regression test suite that verifies the
functionality of the client, server, proxy and SSL
* Comprehensive regression test suite that verifies the functionality
of the client, server, proxy and SSL
* high performance for static and dynamic web page delivery
* Licensed under terms that ensure that it will always be open
source and that encourages its use in commercial settings.
* A new publish function that builds a page from static and
* Licensed under terms that ensure that it will always be open source
and that encourages its use in commercial settings.
* A publish function that builds a page from static and
dynamic data and handles caching of the result.
* Access control mechanisms for publishing directories that
gives the webmaster the ability to specify which files and
* Access control mechanisms for publishing directories that
gives the webmaster the ability to specify which files and
directories in the tree should be visible.
* The ability to run external CGI programs.
* An improved virtual hosting system that supports different
* An improved virtual hosting system that supports different
logging and error streams for each virtual host.

We've recently added these features:

* The ability to compress and inflate files on the fly.
* Support for chunking and http/1.1
* Security up through TLS 1.0 (SSL 3.1).

See [the latest Allegro CL Release
Notes])http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/release-notes.htm)
for more information on AllegroServe changes.

Author
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------------

There are no dependences for AllegroServe. In order to run the
allegroserve test suite you'll need to have [tester]
(<http://opensource.franz.com>) loaded.
allegroserve test suite you'll need to have the tester module
(available at <https://github.com/franzinc>) loaded.

Installation
------------
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For complete documentation see the contents of the doc directory,
which is part of this project or visit the online version of the
[AllegroServe documentation](http://opensource.franz.com/aserve).
[AllegroServe documentation](http://www.franz.com/support/documentation/current/doc/aserve/aserve.html).

### Quick Start Documentation

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Franz Inc. Open Source Info
---------------------------
This project's homepage is <http://opensource.franz.com>. There is an
This project's homepage is <https://github.com/franzinc/aserve>. There is an
informal community support and development mailing list
[opensource@franz.com](http://opensource.franz.com/mailinglist.html)
for these open source projects. We encourage you to take advantage by
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