Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:03:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: spork <spork@super-g.com> Cc: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Active Server Pages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970915214014.27875I-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970915225753.6117A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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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.
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