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{{Short description|API used to interface with web servers}}
In [[computing]], '''server application programming interface''' ('''SAPI''') is the direct module interface to [[web server]]s such as the [[Apache HTTP Server]], [[Microsoft Internet Information Server|Microsoft IIS]], and [[Oracle iPlanet Web Server]].
In other words, SAPI is an [[application programming interface]] (API) provided by the web server to help other developers in extending the web server capabilities. [[Microsoft]] uses the term [[Internet Server Application Programming Interface]] (ISAPI), and the defunct [[Netscape]] web server used the term [[Netscape Server Application Programming Interface]] (NSAPI) for the same purpose.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://searchsoa.techtarget.com/definition/Netscape-Server-Application-Programming-Interface
| title = Netscape Server Application Programming Interface (NSAPI)
| date = September 2005
| accessdate = 2013-09-22 | website = techtarget.com
| archive-date = 2016-11-16
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As an example, [[PHP]] has a direct module interface called SAPI for different web servers;<ref name="php-installation">{{cite web
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}}</ref> which is a module that, among other functions, provides an interface between PHP and the web server, implemented in a form that the server understands. This form is what is known as a SAPI.
Different kinds of SAPIs exist for various web-server extensions. For example, in addition to those listed above, other SAPIs for the PHP language include the [[Common Gateway Interface]] (CGI) and [[command-line interface]] (CLI).<ref name="php-installation" /><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.introduction.php
| title = Command line usage: Introduction
| accessdate = 2013-09-22
| website = php.net
| archive-date = 2021-03-21
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210321035330/https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.introduction.php
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== See also ==
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