1 Introduction

This manual explains the installation and use of the software included in the Skunk software distribution.

The Skunk software distribution has one main software tool: the SkunkWeb web application server. SkunkWeb's purpose is to provide a programming environment that makes it easy to build applications that generate "dynamic documents" in response to Web (HTTP) requests. Think of SkunkWeb as doing the same job as Vignette StoryServer, ASP, ColdFusion, or regular CGI applications.

The other software tools are utilities to help you use SkunkWeb, or general-purpose software to help in web applications programming. This manual will concentrate almost exclusively on the use of SkunkWeb, with little or no mention of the other software in the distribution.