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The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming

Posted by timothy on from the maoism-taoism-i-ching-and-chess dept.

Glyn Moody writes "The February 2009 Netcraft survey is not the usual 'Apache continues to trounce Microsoft IIS' story: there's a new entrant — from China. 'This majority of this month's growth is down to the appearance of 20 million Chinese sites served by QZHTTP. This web server is used by QQ to serve millions of Qzone sites beneath the qq.com domain.' What exactly is this QZHTTP, and what does it all mean for the world of Web servers?"

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  1. Neck-and-neck by conureman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    LOL- good to see MS prompted to fight for its second place standing.

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  2. Why mock this ? by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't understand the people mocking this. Sure this is probably a service a la geocities with a minority of webpages worth of any interest. But some are. Internet gains million of new users and publishers and people just dismiss this as non-significant while we should try to build bridges. As ugly a Myspace-QQ bridge may sound, it could be a worthwhile objective...

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  3. Please no more... by ericrost · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop linking to zero content, zero insight, zero analysis blogs!

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  4. Re:LOL web admins by tjstork · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every job has a cost - the opportunity cost. Reduce that cost and you increase wealth.

    It's whose wealth is being increased, is the question that we're asking here.

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  5. Might be a version of thttpd instead by TheLink · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it's more likely to be a version of thttpd because of an error message I got:

    telnet qzone.qq.com 80
    Trying 58.251.60.181...
    Connected to qzone.qq.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET - HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Server: qhttpd
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Length: 235

    <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>400 Bad Request</TITLE></HEAD><BODY><H2>400 Bad Request</H2>Your request has bad syntax or is inherently impossible to satisfy.<HR><ADDRESS><A HREF="http://www.tencent.com/">qhttpd Server</A></ADDRESS></BODY></HTML>

    Compare that message with:
    thttpd-2.25b
    libhttpd.c: "Your request has bad syntax or is inherently impossible to satisfy.\n";

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  6. Re:Self-Censored by kiddygrinder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the difference? they're still taking money out of the machine. 100 people on 30k will keep a lot more money moving than 1 person on 3 mill

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