ISAPI, short for Internet Services Application Programming Interface, is a specification for extending Web server functionality in the Windows environment. An ISAPI extension is a DLL that exports specific functions according to the ISAPI specification. There are two types of ISAPI extensions: ISAPI filters and ISAPI applications. ISAPI provides comparable functionality to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), but offers performance improvements on Windows-based Web servers.
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