Internet Server Application Programming Interface: Difference between revisions

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===ISAPI for IIS 5.0 and earlier===

In contrast to [[Common Gateway Interface|CGI]] applications, an ISAPI application is loadedfdloaded into the same process space as the IIS web server. This removes the need for inter-[[Process (computing)|process]] calls allowing improved performance of ISAPI applications over CGI applications. However, if an ISAPI application [[Crash (computing)|crashes]], it can cause the whole of the web server to crash along with it.

===ISAPI for IIS 6.0===