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I recall eBay used to have ISAPI.dll in most of its request URLs. It bewildered my younger self who thought DLLs were only for a Windows machine, not a web serv
by HeckFeck 4y ago
I recall eBay used to have ISAPI.dll in most of its request URLs. It bewildered my younger self who thought DLLs were only for a Windows machine, not a web server.
- mrweasel 4y agoA previous employer of mine build a CMS for newspapers, written in Delphi and ran on Windows under IIS, it too was had a .dll extension. I believe it was the same IIS API (ISAPI) that made it work. It was an insane product that had simply failed to move forwards. It's not that you can't do what you need to do using the ISAPI, but the ecosystem is just to small for things like the Delphi stuff and keeping up with expectations of customers becomes to much work.
- HeckFeck 4y agoIt's impressive that anything that built the correct DLL could be leveraged by it. But I assume ISAPI didn't have anything like CPAN or pip. It seems likely you'd have to write everything yourself - perhaps worthwhile if you were a very large corporation with the manpower. But something as simple as PHP would swamp it for the rest of us.