ISAPI filters and IIS 6.0

hi there

when you apply an ISAPI filter to a web server, does this get
processed for each site and sub site of the server, or only the area
that requires the filter?

any help would be good

JP

Scope of ISAPI depends primarily on configuration.

ISAPI Filter has two different configurable scopes:
1. global -- i.e. execute on every request to any website on the server
2. per-website -- i.e. execute on every request to that site.

I don't know what you mean by "sub site".

Meanwhile, Scriptmaps (ISAPI Extension) have configurable scope on a per-URL
basis, from global all the way down to a single URL

The two ISAPI types are completely different and serve different needs.

Now, the scope of an ISAPI has nothing to do with the actual processing done
by the ISAPI. Good ISAPIs usually trigger to do something based on
characteristics of the given request (i.e. "area that requires the filter").
Scope only controls whether the ISAPI even sees the request to do the
determination.

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//David
IIS
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hi there

when you apply an ISAPI filter to a web server, does this get
processed for each site and sub site of the server, or only the area
that requires the filter?

any help would be good

JP