Chilisoft ASP (Simon Dick)

[Paul Richards]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:26, Simon Dick wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:22, Paul Richards wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 15:05, Simon Dick wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 14:33, Rob King wrote:
> > > > >Has anyone installed Chilisoft ASP onto freeBSD and if so what version and
> > > > >are there any tips?
> > > > 
> > > > Again, no, but out of interest why Chilisoft? I'm looking to do this some 
> > > > time in the near future to host one of my sites that's been created in asp. 
> > > > But I was looking to do it with Apache and p5-Apache-ASP-2.17 (in ports: 
> > > > www/p5-Apache-ASP) which is s'posed to do the trick. Or if not, I was going 
> > > > to convert to PHP with asp2php-0.76.5 (also in the ports collection)...
> > > > 
> > > > If you're not using these, is there any reason I should be aware of? With 
> > > > Apache being my current webserver demon, it seemed sensible to just mod 
> > > > it...
> > > 
> > > Mainly due to the fact that what most people call ASP is just a way of
> > > embedding languages into web pages, AFAIR the p5-Apache-ASP just lets
> > > you embed perl into ASP pages (I did look at it :). For "proper" ASP
> > > usage you need something that supports VBScript and Jscript (from
> > > memory), and I only know two programs which do that, Chilisoft (now
> > > known as Sun ONE ASP) and iASP ( http://www.halcyonsoft.com/ ) which
> > > costs around $999 per server but works very nicely with apache going by
> > > the trial version I used on my 4.6 box.
> > 
> > I've got to ask, why the burning desire to use VBScript (or Jscript) as
> > your embedded language rather than Perl?
> 
> Personally I'd rather not use it, but when I'll be migrating customers
> across from an existing web hosting setup which includes chilisoft and
> is advertised as supporting ASP, call me old fashioned, but I'd prefer
> something that'll work with the customers existing scripts ;)

That's a good reason :-)

Paul.