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API used to interface with web servers
In
computing
,
server application programming interface
(
SAPI
) is the direct module interface to
web servers
such as the
Apache HTTP Server
,
Microsoft IIS
, and
Oracle iPlanet Web Server
.
In other words, SAPI is an
application programming interface
(API) provided by the web server to help other developers in extending the web server capabilities.
Microsoft
uses the term
Internet Server Application Programming Interface
(ISAPI), and the defunct
Netscape
web server used the term
Netscape Server Application Programming Interface
(NSAPI) for the same purpose.
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As an example,
PHP
has a direct module interface called SAPI for different web servers;
[2]
in the case of PHP 5 and Apache 2.0 on Windows, it is provided in the form of a
DLL
file called
php5apache2.dll
,
[3]
which is a module that, among other functions, provides an interface between PHP and the web server, implemented in a form that the server understands. This form is what is known as a SAPI.
Different kinds of SAPIs exist for various web-server extensions. For example, in addition to those listed above, other SAPIs for the PHP language include the
Common Gateway Interface
(CGI) and
command-line interface
(CLI).
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