dserve README
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dserve is a tool for performing REST queries from WhiteDB using a cgi
protocol over http. Results are given in the json or csv format.

dservehttps is a version of dserve using https instead of http.

nsmeasure is a tool for measuring server speed.

For details see http://whitedb.org/server/

Run dserver in one of three ways:

* a cgi program under a web server, connecting like
  http://myhost.com/dserve?op=search&from=0&count=5  
* as a standalone http(s) server, passing a port number as a single argument, like
  dserve 8080
  and connecting like
  http://localhost:8080/dserve?op=search&from=0&count=5
  or, for dservehttps compiled with USE_OPENSSL
  dservehttps 8081 conf.txt
  https://localhost:8081/dserve?op=search&from=0&count=5
* from the command line, passing a cgi-format, urlencoded query string
  as a single argument, like
  dserve 'op=search&from=0&count=5'
  
Use the provided Makefile or compile.sh or compile.bat for compiling dserve. 

Use and modify the code for creating your own data servers for WhiteDB.

Copyright (c) 2013, Tanel Tammet

This software is under MIT licence:
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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining 
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the 
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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NB! Observe that the dserve source is under a more permissive licence than
the WhiteDB library: the latter is by default under GPLv3. Thus the
linked dserve is under GPLv3 unless a free commercial licence is used
(see whitedb.org for details).

It is OK to use the MIT licence when using this code or parts of it in
other projects without linking to the whitedb library.

