Jigsaw is a

web server A web server is computer software and underlying Computer hardware, hardware that accepts requests via Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP (the network protocol created to distribute web content) or its secure variant HTTPS. A user agent, co ...

software written in

Java Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea (a part of Pacific Ocean) to the north. With a population of 156.9 million people (including Madura) in mid 2024, proje ...

. It is the successor to

CERN httpd CERN httpd (later also known as W3C httpd) is an early, now discontinued, web server (HTTP) daemon originally developed at CERN from 1990 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee, Ari Luotonen and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen. Implemented in C, it was the first ...

, the first web server software ever, and was developed by the

World Wide Web Consortium The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in ...

. Jigsaw supports HTTP/1.1 and is a reference implementation for the W3C and an experimental platform for the Internet community. The server is configurable via HTML forms, and new Java classes can be added during operation.{{cite magazine, access-date=2024-02-03 , title=Puzzle in 14 Minuten , url=https://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/Puzzle-in-14-Minuten-505258.html , website= heise.de, date=17 August 1996 , volume=1996 , issue=9 , page=108 , last1=Klute , first1=Rainer Artikel-Archiv iX 9/1996, Seite 108 The first released version was 1.0alpha1 and appeared in June 1996. Version 2.0.0 was completed on December 24, 1998. The last released version is 2.2.6 from April 10, 2007.

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Homepage of W3C-Jigsaw Project

Homepage of CERN httpd
Java platform software Web server software Free web server software

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