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ISAPI Perl is a useful Win32 performance enhancement compared to plain CGI/Perl. To summarize, the following major points were covered in this tutorial:
- ISAPI Perl vs. CGI/Perl
- CGI was the first protocol
- ISAPI gave a performance boost
- Configuring a Web Server for ISAPI Perl
- Fairly straightforward, just use the installer
- Win98 ISAPI installation may require tweaking
- Consider enabling taint mode
- Using CGI Scripts under ISAPI Perl
- Getting ISAPI Perl to be associated with a Perl script
- Get IIS to recognize the current working directory
using the chdir() command or setting up an IIS virtual root
