Speed / Performance Issues

Two Approaches

• Embed script interpreted into Web server
  • e.g.: mod_perl (Apache); javascript (Netscape)
  • Many of the HTML scripting tools provided embeddable interpreters
    
    
• Direct APIs for writing server "modules"
  • NSAPI (Netscape Servers)
  • ISAPI (Microsoft IIS)
  • Apache modules (Apache)

Advantages are speed. Disadvantages are platform-dependencies, porting problems, risk to server

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