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Dissemina
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  a fast webserver

The scenario invisioned is this:
  - Alice has a directory of files she wishes to share with Bob, Carmen, and Dan
  - but the three are not interested in all the files or even the same files
  - Bob suggests Alice start a server and make these files public
  - Alice has no previous experience with webservers, so she wants a
  webserver that she can use without having to go through pages and
  pages of documentation

This is where Dissemina comes into the picture. Dissemina is drop-in
webserver written with simplicity and speed in mind. The goal is to make
a webserver that can be deployed immediatly with NO configuration.

In this case, Alice can just get the sever's executable, put it into
the directory she wants to make public and run it. Dissemina immediately
starts serving the files. Now all that's left is for Alice to tell Bob
and the others her IP address.

Feature plan for 0.1:
  * serve static files from the current directory with minimum hustle [done]
  * guess filetype and fill in the Content-Type header correctly [partial]
  * handle thousands of requests per second well [no]
  * run on Linux [done]
  * run on Windows [no]


License
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The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2008 Alexandru Scvortov

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
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
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:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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