Netscape Server Application Programming Interface: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:50, 19 April 2015

Latest revision as of 21:55, 18 November 2024

(8 intermediate revisions by 8 users not shown)

Line 5:

==History==

NSAPI was initially developed by [[Rob McCool]] at [[Netscape]] for use in [[Netscape Enterprise Server|Netscape's web server software]]. A variant of NSAPI can also be used with [[Netscape's directoryDirectory server softwareServer]].

Because there is no formal standard, applications that use NSAPI are not necessarily portable across server software. As of 2007, varying degrees of support for NSAPI are found in [[Sun Java System Web Server]] and [[Zeus Web Server]].

Line 21:

In contrast to CGI programs, NSAPI SAFs can be configured to run at different stages of request processing. For example, while processing a single [[HTTP]] request, different NSAPI SAFs can be used to authenticate and authorize the remote user, map the requested [[Uniform Resource Identifier|URI]] to a local file system path, generate the web page, and log the request.

After Netscape introduced NSAPI, [[Microsoft]] developed [[Internet Server Application Programming Interface|ISAPI]] and the [[Apache Software Foundation]] developed theApache API (or ASAPI: [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache Server]] API). All three APIs have a number of similarities. For example: NSAPI, ISAPI and the Apache API allow applications to run inside the server process. Further, all three allow applications to participate in the different stages of request processing. For example, Apache API's hooks closely resemble those used in NSAPI.<ref>[{{cite web |title=Apache API notes |url=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/API.html Apache|access-date=2007-03-24 API notes<!|archive-date=2007-03-28 Bot generated|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070328093147/http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/API.html title -|url->]status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==

Line 30:

==External links==

* [http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19146-01/821-1833/index.html Oracle iPlanet Web Server 7.0.9 NSAPI Developer's Guide]

* [http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2632 Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 NSAPI Developer's Guide]

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130713113125/http://support.zeus.com/zws/examples/2005/12/16/nsapi_netscape_server_api Zeus Web Server Introduction to NSAPI] (archived version)

{{Web interfaces}}

Line 37 ⟶ 38:

[[Category:Netscape]]

[[Category:World Wide Web]]

[[Category:Application programming interfaces]]