Introduction to the ZWS APIs

Zeus Web Server supports a number of API interfaces, with differing degrees of power, robustness and complexity. This section introduces each API, describes what each is typically used for, highlights its advantages and disadvantages and provides sample code for each.

Read this section to gain an overview of the APIs available and understand which is most appropriate for your requirements.

The purpose of all web server APIs is to:

• pass requests to content handlers
• modify server behaviour (authentication, logging, redirection)
• process content as it's sent back to the client
• process data from submitted forms.

The Zeus Web Server supports all open dynamic content APIs in common use today, and several proprietary APIs, including:

• SSI
• CGI
• FastCGI
• ISAPI
• NSAPI
• ZDAC
• Perl Extensions (ZWS 4.2 and later only)

Content Manager [Administrator] 16 December 2005