Peer Web Services

You can use Peer Web Services for Windows NT Workstation version 4.0 and Windows 95 to publish web pages on a small scale, such as your own home page on your company's network. You can also use Peer Web Services to develop and test content and applications for Windows NT Server Internet Information Server without requiring that you run the Windows NT Server operating system on the computer used to create the content.

Peer Web Services is a subset of Internet Information Server. Although limited in capability, this personal version is still suitable for Web application development. Peer Web Services supports all extensions and filters supported by Internet Information Server.

Table 35.1 compares Peer Web Services and Internet Information Server.

Table 35.1 Comparison of Peer Web Services and Internet Information Server

Feature

Peer Web Services

Internet Information Server

Operating system

Windows NT Workstation 4.0 and Windows 95

Windows NT Server 4.0

Version

2.0

2.0

Purpose

For low-volume personal publishing on a non-dedicated workstation in the corporate intranet—similar to peer-level file services

For publishing on the Internet or corporate intranet

Services

WWW, FTP, and Gopher

WWW, FTP, and Gopher

Control access via IP address

No

Yes

Virtual servers

No

Yes

Log to ODBC database

No

Yes

Limit network bandwidth

No

Yes

Internet Database Connector

Included

Included

SSL support

40-bit keys

40-bit and 128-bit keys
(128-bit support available in U.S. and Canadian versions only)

HTML-based administration

Yes

Yes

HTTP version string

Microsoft-IIS-W/2.0
Microsoft-IIS-W95/2.0 (Windows 95)

Microsoft-IIS-S/2.0

TransmitFile()

Restricted to two concurrent TransmitFile() operations

Yes

Concurrent connect limit

No limit

No limit

Completion ports used

Yes

Yes

Remote IIS server discovery

No

Yes

File handle caching

No

Yes

CPU scaling for threads

No

Yes

Socket listen backlog

5

None


Except for the restrictions listed on the previous page, Peer Web Services is completely compatible with Internet Information Server.

For more information about using either of these Microsoft web servers, see the Windows NT Server Internet Guide.