[thelist] Process all pages as .asp under IIS

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Mon Feb 28 07:39:13 CST 2005


For IIS5 and II6 you will see minimal difference (as in, not measurable). The
ASP ISAPI extension will parse the page, and compile it down to pseudo-code,
and cache this pseudo-code for reuse (what's called an ASP compiled
template). The compiled template will be used for future requests. For html
pages that have no ASP code in them, after the first request (when the
template is created), there is no difference between having the page
processed by ASP, and not having it processed by ASP.

Cheers
Ken

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[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Justin Stach
Sent: Monday, 28 February 2005 7:42 PM
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Subject: [thelist] Process all pages as .asp under IIS

Hello,

I'm being asked if I could configure IIS to process all .html/.htm 
pages as .asp pages - mainly so that our relaunched site doesn't break 
a load of bookmarks. Technically this is possible, but does anyone have 
any experience on knock-on effects? I'm guessing that there's going to 
be an increased load on the server, as each page will need to be parsed 
before it's served - is that right, and how bad an idea is it, if at 
all.

Justin 


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