Re: Please vote: ISAPI or CGI (or something else)?

Hi Danijel,

> Thank you all for your votes. It looks like ISAPI won the battle against
> CGI. It's probably deserved, since CGI's have to load every time a new
> request comes in, while ISAPI DLLs stay in memory until the WebServer
> decides to unload it. Anyway ... if I had to choose between ISAPI and CGI,
I
> would most likely go for ISAPI.
>
> Question: From what I know, ISAPI is a Microsoft-specific implementation,
> which leaves you no other choice than to use Microsoft's IIS. Is that
> correct?

No, there are other web servers that support ISAPI. Apache has an ISAPI
module, and Omni as well as a few others do as well. We are currently using
wwwServer.exe for easier ISAPI debugging from Components 4 Developers:
http://www.components4programmers.com/products/kbmwabd/download.htm. Its a
bit slow and we sometimes get strange image errors that we don't get with
Local IIS, but it is MUCH easier to work with.

Could your product be used to build a tight, fast, thin web server that
serves existing ISAPI dll's?

Regards
John Hair


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