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High Performance ISAPI/NSAPI Web Programming: Your Complete Guide to Creating Fast, Powerful Web Server Programs

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You can read this book in a day, and walk away with a good understanding of the life of an HTTP request from client, through server, web application, and back. This is no work of art, but it quickly gets the job done. Useful examples that watch the HTTP exchange reveal exactly what the client and server say to eachother. The NSAPI coverage is a good compliment to our (Netscape's) online documentation - the latter is a better reference, the former, a better introduction.

There is nothing new and all the information are copied from original documents. You can get all the information and more from website like msdn or iplanet. It's a shame that trees are cut for this book.

Decent coverage of ISAPI, but far too many code examples had errors in them that prevented them from compiling. Errors were corrected on the CD.

The only book I've found for NSAPI. Good tutorial and CD. A great jumping-off point for NSAPI programming. This text fills in the gaps left by Netscape's online docs, enabling you to immediately start coding NSAPI.

Examples are good, but their format in the book is poor - I spent days getting my first config working because the book line-wraps the sample obj.conf text without any notation. (It looked like 2 separate config lines - see page 164.)

The book dedicates many chapters each to NSAPI and ISAPI, covering them in good detail. Also included is source code for a C++ framework that's works on either ISAPI or NSAPI servers.

In all, this book is definitely worth buying. I only wish it had been published sooner.

There is nothing new and all the information are copied from original documents. You can get all the information and more from website like msdn or iplanet. It's a shame that trees are cut for this book.

the authers provide only standard examples from Microsoft and Netscape. The book is not organized as a reference. Authors failed to respond to a question regarding a specific topic.