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HankStallone on April 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: I use zip bombs to protect my server

Yeah, getting Frontpage working on a Linux/Apache system and supporting it back then wasn't exactly a treat. Good idea, maybe, but bad implementation.

donnachangstein on April 30, 2025 [–]

I think you're mistaken. The use of WebDAV was not a requirement. Frontpage could function in "HTML editor" mode and just write to the filesystem. In that case, any WYSIWYG editor would do but FP was there and available.

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