Techniques for Enabling Application Frameworks

IIS 7.0 provides several options for hosting third-party application frameworks, depending on how the application framework’s developer chooses to interface it with IIS. The options include:

  • IIS 7.0 native module. Application frameworks that integrate with IIS by using the IIS 7.0 native module APIs to handle requests

  • ASP.NET handler. Application frameworks that integrate with IIS by using the ASP.NET handler APIs

  • ISAPI extension. Application frameworks that integrate with IIS by using the legacy ISAPI extension APIs

  • FastCGI application. Application frameworks that provide executables that support the open FastCGI protocol to integrate with IIS

  • CGI application. Application frameworks that provide executables ...

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