The following reply was made to PR general/908; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Pierce, Jonathan A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Brian Behlendorf'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"'Alexei Kosut'"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: general/908: Is there a plan to include support for Active Server
Pages in the Apache server for NT?
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 08:29:15 -0700
Understandable about the undocumented calls. Are you working with anyone
at Microsoft on interoperability?
If this is a feature that you do plan to implement, I would be willing
to clear up a dev machine for some test scenarios. Most of my work is
ASP and ISAPI based, and I am a strong advocate of "platform diversity"
in development, so your server interests me.
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>From: Alexei Kosut[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, August 01, 1997 11:23 AM
>To: Brian Behlendorf
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: general/908: Is there a plan to include support for Active
>Server Pages in the Apache server for NT?
>
>On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
>> At 03:00 AM 8/1/97 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >Some people have been looking at it. It is a desirable feature.
>> >So it may be supported ... it depends on how easy it is to coax
>> >certain programs to co-operate.
>>
>> We actually think it may be possible /today/ with the ISAPI module we've
>> done for the NT port, since ASP is implemented as an ISAPI extension. In
>> fact it might make a good test case for the ISAPI work we've done,
>> discounting the possibility that the ASP engine relies on undocumented
>> Microsoft calls :)
>>
>> Jonathan, if you'd like to download the NT port and give this a try, we'd
>> love to hear if it works....
>
>It doesn't. I've tried it. The ASP extension fails its initialization
>call, probably because it tries to activate a MS-specific extension or
>something, and is unable to.
>
>I haven't looked into it much, because it would probably involve tracing
>through the execution of the ASP DLL, and that wouldn't be very
>feasible.
>
>-- Alexei Kosut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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