From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 21:02:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA18818 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:02:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA18813; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA22935; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:02:27 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA29610; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:03:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:03:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko To: spork cc: jack , isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Active Server Pages In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, spork wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, jack wrote: > > > I'm confused. What does all this M$ based software have to do with > > FreeBSD? > > Well, Apache is the FreeBSD of webservers. When one of "our" kind can > bust into that there "other" world of 'dows, that is rather impressive, > and somewhat heartening. It gave me warm fuzzies to point a browser at an > NT machine and be greeted with "powered by Apache". > > And if there is support in the win32 Apache for .asps, then perhaps > there's a way to bring that into *nix Apache... There is support for most of the ISAPI stuff in Apache running on NT, but the ISAPI ASP DLL doesn't work last I knew. In any case, the ISAPI ASP DLL is just a transitionary element until ASP support is directly integrated into IIS; the ISAPI DLL for it may go away at any point. ASP is very annoying to implement, and even worse on a platform-independent basis, because it relies so heavily on MS things like Visual Basic and ActiveX. ChiliSoft (http://www.chilisoft.net/) has a non-MS ASP implementation for NT. They have one in the works for Unix, but it involves reimplementing a lot of stuff. This enters the world of proprietary standards (well, not standards since that would imply there is a standard) and becomes very difficult to implement. There are some somewhat ASP like things that provide server side scripting like mod_perl and PHP available for Apache, but they don't give you the same compatability with ASP that you get with IIS.