High Performance ISAPI/NSAPI Web Programming: Your Complete Guide to Creating Fast, Powerful Web Server Programs

By Tony Beveridge

Web programmers are rushing to to embrace ISAPI and NSAPI, technologies that provide a more efficient, easy-to-use alternative to CGI. This book shows how to implement dynamic extension of server... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576101517
• ISBN13: 9781576101513
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Coriolis Group
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 3.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 2.0" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Quick-start to web programming basics

You can read this book in a day, and walk away with a good understanding of the life of an HTTP request from client, through server, web application, and back. This is no work of art, but it quickly gets the job done. Useful examples that watch the HTTP exchange reveal exactly what the client and server say to eachother. The NSAPI coverage is a good compliment to our (Netscape's) online documentation - the latter is a better reference, the former, a better introduction.

Great jump-start to NSAPI programming

The only book I've found for NSAPI. Good tutorial and CD. A great jumping-off point for NSAPI programming. This text fills in the gaps left by Netscape's online docs, enabling you to immediately start coding NSAPI. Examples are good, but their format in the book is poor - I spent days getting my first config working because the book line-wraps the sample obj.conf text without any notation. (It looked like 2 separate config lines - see page 164.) The book dedicates many chapters each to NSAPI and ISAPI, covering them in good detail. Also included is source code for a C++ framework that's works on either ISAPI or NSAPI servers. In all, this book is definitely worth buying. I only wish it had been published sooner.