March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
24h 25m
English
Internet Information Services (IIS), like many other Web server technologies, originally began as a way to serve static files, such as HTML documents and images, to browser clients using the HTTP protocol. As the needs of Web site applications evolved to include dynamic content, IIS added support for a simplistic Common Gateway Interface (CGI), which supported dynamic generation of Web content by executing programs. These programs, which were usually built with C or C++, had little or no framework support for building Web applications.
The Web of today is much different, with a multitude of development frameworks and applications environments for building dynamic Web applications, including Active Server ...
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