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- See the 'HELP-RELEASE NOTES' menu items for release information.
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- I don't know of a free WWW server for Win95 that supports ISAPI,
- so S7 is hopefully unique in that respect. You can use it as an
- everyday server (I do at work), but also as a way to work with
- and develop high performance ISAPI DLLs withough having to buy
- MS WinNT Server.
-
- After installing ServerSeven, start your browser and enter the
- following URL:
-
- http://localhost
-
- NOTE: Some users have to add 'localhost' to their LMHOSTS.SAM
- file before this will work. I don't know why this is. If the
- above doesn't work for you, try
-
- http://127.0.0.1
-
- If your browser displays a dialog box that will connect you to
- your local provider, you may press cancel as a connection to the
- net isn't required for experimenting with your local server.
-
- If all goes well, ServerSeven should serve you a test page, with
- links to some sample ISAPI DLLs.
-
- All the files you need to re-build the sample DLLs are included.
-
- ServerSeven protects all dynamic DLL calls with try-except blocks,
- but I haven't figured out how to make an exception in the DLL
- correctly propogate back to S7. Maybe it is impossible. Regardless,
- you need to make very, very sure that your DLL protects itself with
- lots of exception handling because un-caught exceptions will lock
- the thread at best and crash the server at worst. Such is the price
- for performance!
-
- Let me know what you think of S7! My email address is
- mattt@interaccess.com.
-
- -Matt