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Re: need performance info (CGI/NT)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Sanders)
Fri Jan 26 16:49:02 1996

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In-Reply-To: Luke Gonze's message of Fri, 26 Jan 1996 14:07:39 EST.
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 21:32:37 +0000
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Luke Gonze writes:
> If performance is an issue, binding C code directly into the server is a
> major win over cgi.  Spyglass has a toolkit to do this for $75000.  Netscape
> has a set of api's that come with any server.  Cern, of course, comes with
> source code, although it's _highly_ inscrutable.  I dont know about the use
> of visual basic, though.  If you can make a dll with it, it should be doable. 

The Apache server has an API, and you can have it for $0.  And it's
one heck of a server with an open development group to boot.

There are also SLL versions of Apache available.

http://www.apache.org/


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