What is NCSA HTTPd?
NCSA HTTPd is a program to serve information, much in the same way that NCSA Mosaic is a program to browse information in the World Wide Web. From the Client-Server viewpoint, NCSA HTTPd is the Server to the Browser Client. HTTPd stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Daemon. HTTP is a protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for a distributed collaborative hypermedia information system.