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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