How This Guide Is Organized

This guide has the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Syntax and Use of obj.conf

  This chapter describes the configuration file obj.conf. The chapter discusses the syntax and use of directives in this file, which instruct the server how to process HTTP requests.

• Chapter 2, SAFs in the magnus.conf File

  This chapter discusses the SAFs you can set in the configuration file magnus.conf to configure the Sun Java System Web Server during initialization.

• Chapter 3, Creating Custom SAFs

  This chapter discusses how to create your own plug-ins that define new SAFs to modify or extend the way the server handles requests.

• Chapter 4, Creating Custom Filters

  This chapter discusses how to create your own custom filters that you can use to intercept, and potentially modify, incoming content presented to or generated by another function.

• Chapter 5, Examples of Custom SAFs and Filters

  This chapter describes examples of custom SAFs to use at each stage in the request-handling process.

• Chapter 6, Creating Custom Server-parsed HTML Tags

  This chapter explains how to create custom server-parsed HTML tags.

• Chapter 7, NSAPI Function Reference

  This chapter presents a reference of the NSAPI functions. You use NSAPI functions to define SAFs.

• Chapter 8, Data Structure Reference

  This chapter discusses some of the commonly used NSAPI data structures.

• Chapter 9, Using Wildcard Patterns

  This chapter lists the wildcard patterns you can use when specifying values in obj.conf and various predefined SAFs.

• Chapter 10, Time Formats

  This chapter lists time formats.

• Chapter 11, Dynamic Results Caching Functions

  This chapter explains how to create a results caching plug-in.

• Chapter 12, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

  This chapter gives an overview of HTTP.

• Appendix A, Alphabetical List of NSAPI Functions and Macros

  This appendix provides an alphabetical list of NSAPI functions and macros.