Re: ASP support in Apache

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> > Under NT, the predominant method of creating dynamic content
> > is ASP.  Other alternatives are really awful, and because of NT's
> > heavy process model, Unix-born methods just don't perform
> > or work well for lots of other reasons.
> 
> But perhaps we can change this.  If we can make both mod_perl and mod_php
> perform well with Apache-NT and given that both have ODBC capabilities, it
> might make ASP support rather redundant.  To me, it is more important that
> I can take a Unix web site and stick it on Apache-NT and have it work
> unchanged.
> 
> Not to say that I wouldn't like to harass Microsoft and support ASP, it
> just seems like a rather daunting effort looking at the requirements.
> 
> -Rasmus

I agree with your position on this. Unfortunately, it is legacy ASP 
work that may force me to run IIS.

Would a mod_vbasic get us much closer to this ASP support goal?

Stupid question perhaps, I've never seen the ASP stuff.