By Kevin Clements, Chris Wuestefeld, Jeffrey Trent
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Inside ISAPI from New Riders is not only a book about programming the ISAPI Interface, but a book about solutions. On a topic that falls in the Shadow of the Active Server Page hype, ISAPI is not very understood, nor respected. However, Inside ISAPI takes most of the mystery out of programming ISAPI, with writing that could only stem from the experience of experimentation. Most of the tricks and programming hints contained in the book show a deep knowledge and understanding of a very undocumented programming interface and the server that is behind it. ISAPI programming is much about knowing IIS as it is about knowing ISAPI. Inside ISAPI brings this forth with creative solutions to common problems. This book includes valuable sections on accessing an SMTP server and ISAPI programming. And contain less valuable information such as the outdated Internet Database Connector. If you have any ISAPI programming to do this book is a most read, maybe the programming you need to do is included already as one of the solutions presented.
This issue discusses and demonstrates how to run isolated ISAPI applications. Included are considerations for moving your ISAPI application from IIS 3.0 to IIS 4.0, performance considerations and the effects of isolated ISAPI applications on ODBC connection pooling. [Read This Article][Top]
This article by Itay Weinberger describes how to use an ISAPI filter to prevent unauthorized access to your JavaScript or VBScript files. [Read This Article][Top]
Within this 15 Seconds' issue there is an example of a redirecting ISAPI filter written in MSVC 4.2, that redirects files not found to the default of the closest root. This issue includes source code and a explanation of implementation. [Read This Article][Top]
