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<title > isapi </title>
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<Content  Heading="An introduction to the "Internet Server API""> Isapi was introduced with Microsofts Internet Server for generating dynamic web pages. It is the best choice for high performance web sites on a Windows platform (note: on a linux platform you'd use Apache shared modules), but this speed comes at a cost - it takes a considerable development effort to make even a simple change and any bugs in the Isapi DLL can easily crash your web server. <br/>
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There are 2 types of Isapi technologies:
<ul>
<li>Isapi Filters process
<u>every</u>
incoming and/or outgoing request to the web server. Situations where this is appropriate are user authentication, altering the request headers and encrypted communication (i.e: SSL).</li>
<li>Isapi Extensions generate dynamic content. This is normally HTML, but often includes dynamic images and other custom formats. Two excellent examples of Isapi extensions are the asp.dll for Active Server Pages and the iscf.dll for Cold Fusion pages.</li>
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<LINKS  title="Isapi Webservers">
<SITE href="http://www.apache.org/" title="Apache"/>
<SITE href="http://www.blueface.com/products.html#fws" title="Falcon Webserver"/>
<SITE href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/web/default.asp" title="Microsoft IIS"/>
<SITE href="http://www.omnicron.ca/" title="OmniHTTPd"/>
<SITE href="http://www.sambar.com/" title="Sambar"/>
<SITE href="http://www.deerfield.com/products/website/" title="Website (a.k.a.Oriellys)"/>
<SITE href="http://www.zeustech.net/" title="Zeus"/>
</LINKS>
<SiteList  title="Isapi links - normally onl 1 or 2 pages in a site">
<SITE href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/html/psdk/asp/isgu2f3o.asp?frame=true" title="Establishing a Debugging Environment">Official MS explanation about how to debug ISAPI DLLs. Heavy going but essntial for serious ISAPI developers.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.eggcentric.com" title="Eggcentric.com">Excellent resource for anyone developing ISAPI extensions, and particularly Delphi developers like me. The debugging environment and dynamic DLL loaders are very nice ideas. Keep up the good work Mr Egge.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20901,00.html" title="Debugging an ISAPI DLL with Delphi under NT 4.0 for IIS version 4">Step by step procedure for debuging a Web server application, from Borland Developer Support Staff</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.genusa.com/isapi/isapispe.htm" title="The ISAPI developers site">This was the original Isapi reference site, although the FAQ section (mentioned below) now points directly to 15 seconds.com</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.21st-century.net/Pub/Internet/Servers/Web/IIS/isapifaqc.htm" title="The Isapi FAQ">Ok, the page is 6 years old and the URL it mentions for the up to date version doesn't work.... but this is the best Isapi reference I've come across. Written by the legend Steve Genusa. (I suspect this FAQ has eveolved into 15 seconds.com)</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.iisfaq.com/ISAPI/" title="www.IISFAQ.com">IISFAQ.com has lots of technical information, demos and tutorials about IIS, and naturally there is an ISAPI secton (amongst heaps of other sections.) Strongly recommended site for any serious IIS developer.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.codeproject.com/isapi/" title="The Code Project">Huge portal of programming articles and code. This link is to the Isapi section.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/ISAPI_Extensions.asp" title="What an ISAPI extension is?">Yes, this article has flawed grammar, but it is still an excellent description of ISAPI and how to write an ISAPI DLL is C++ without the MFC. Essential reading. Written by Mehdi Mousavi and hosted at The Code Project.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/html/psdk/asp/isre0wit.asp" title="Isapi Extension Reference">The MSDN Isapi extension reference is as about official as you can get, although it obviously doesnt list the proprietry extensions to the standard from the other web server companies.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iisref/html/psdk/asp/isre2sh1.asp" title="Isapi filter reference">The MSDN filter documentation. Essential reading for anyone brave enough to develop filters.</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.avdf.com/mar97/delf_isapifil.html" title="Writing an ISAPI Filter DLL ">yet another oldie. The first paragraph says "Despite what you may have heard, ISAPI is not quite dead yet. While Microsoft's new Active Server Pages represent a terrific advance in programming non-static Web pages, there are some things that are really cool about ISAPI that you might be interested in."</SITE>
<SITE href="http://support.zeus.com/doc/examples/" title="Zeus examples">This page has several Isapi examples, links to Isapi documentation plus information on CGI, FastCGI and a few other web technologies. (The Zeus web server supports more than Isapi.)</SITE>
<SITE href="http://www.codeproject.com/isapi/" title="The Code Project">Huge portal of programming articles and code. This link is to the Isapi section.</SITE>
</SiteList>
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