Migrating a Web Server to IIS 5.0

Migrating from CGI to ASP

Whenever possible, migrate CGI applications to ASP, to take advantage of improved performance and the simplified development environment. Converting to the ASP scripting environment may not require as much effort as you think, because when you examine the application code you might find that much of it is unnecessary in the ASP environment. All you might need to do is port the business logic, greatly reducing the work involved. Removing CGI code that isn’t required within the ASP environment—form processing, environment variable processing, e-mail manipulation, database handling, state management, and most importantly, output processing—can result in much smaller applications to migrate.

See the following:

• ASP Scripting Support
• Analyzing the Application
• Input Processing
• Business Logic
• External Gateway and Database Logic
• Maintaining State
• Output Handling
• The File System

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