Howell, Steven wrote: > Hi guys, > > I currently have Apache installed on a Unix box, and it is already running > perl CGI scripts quite happily. > > I am keen to use Apache::ASP but am unsure as to what benefits it has over > CGI programming. Can anyone argue the case for me?
sure. ASP is a - lets call it API, that was designed my microsoft. bacause it was designed on base of the microsoft-scripting-host perl was also possible as scripting language. ActiveState released a perl-port that was abled to run under windows-scripting-host. The API has been ported and extended with useful features (that i'm still missing under MS' ASP). The API offers you: a Session-Object a 'so called' Application-Object a Reponse-Object a Request-Object and locking (synchronisation) and more a pro is also, that it is HTML-embedded. ASP-capable WYSIWYG-editors can be used to design the pages. with ASP you don't have to write a session-management anymore. usually you would need a databse or a complex file structure to implement this. ASP-sessions are usually used, to save which user is logged in with which login etc. other common things like querystring-parsing, POST-data-parsing etc. are all done by the ASP-framework. session-management is done with cookies, and if it should be VERY secure, than you should use SSL because the cookie can be sniffed and faked. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
