NSAPI CENTRAL NSAPI Resources

Web Sites

• SunOne Web Server home page (former Netscape/iPlanet web server)
• The OLD Netscape Developers Web Site
• Google netscape.* newsgroups archive
• Scott Leersen's (a former NSAPI DevEdge Champion) home page
• NSAPI Knowledge Guide
• Rob McCool old home page at NCSA and the current one at Stanford

• For the fun
  • Web site of former Netscape employee (ex-mozilla.org)
  • The Mozilla Museum with a lot of mozilla pictures !

Documentation

• NSAPI 2.x documentation (pdf)
• NSAPI 3.x documentation (pdf)
• NSAPI 4.x documentation (pdf)
• NSAPI 6.x documentation (html)
• Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0 Programmer's Bookshelf (html)
• Writing a Server Application Function

• Others APIs
  • Agent API Programmer's Guide and Reference
  • Access Control Programmer's Guide
  • Certificate Mapping Programmer's Guide - download the SDK
  • Web Publishing Client API Guide
  • Directory/LDAP SDK - download the SDK

Technical Notes

• Enterprise Server Release Notes
  • 3.0 Unix and Windows
  • 3.5.1
  • 3.6
  • 4.0 - SP4, SP5, SP6
  • 4.1 - SP6, SP7, SP8, SP9, SP10, SP11, SP12
  • 6.0 - SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4, SP4 AIX, SP5

• Samples
  • A sample NSAPI function for reading form data
  • Sample NSAPI to create a referer log on NT
  • Sample NSAPI to create a referer log on Unix
  • Changing Permissions of Files uploaded with HTTP PUT
  • Is there an equivalent command for the Apache AddHandler or Action command?
• Authentication
  • NSAPI wrapper for basic-nsca()
  • [Proxy] Guidelines for you own User Authentication NSAPI function
  • dbread.c: A program to list the users in a user database
  • Encrypting Password using libcrypt.lib
  • Authorizing Enterprise Server users against Unix/NIS Password Information
  • [Proxy] Function to forward authentication request to the next proxy
• CGI
  • Can the server process server-parsed HTML in the output of a CGI script?
  • How to I make my own variable available in the CGI environment ?
• Debugging
  • sdump, an NSAPI function to write session data to a file
• Threading
  • NSAPI thread incompatibility on 2.01 Enterprise Server for Solaris
  • Making NSAPI applications thread safe
  • HP Enterprise 2.0 vs HP Enterprise 3.0 thread models on multi-processor boxes
  • Can I use pthreads in a NSAPI plug-in?
  • Multi-threaded NSAPI SAFs
  • condvar_init() and crit_enter() examples
• Installation & Configuration
  • An explanation of the "LateInit=yes" line in obj.conf
  • Your NSAPI plugin Installer on Windows NT
  • How to help an NSAPI server plugin installer find the config files
  • Netscape Enterprise Server 3.0 Performance Tuning Guide
  • Performance Tuning NES 3.6
  • Performance Tuning NES 3.x
  • Enabling CORBA on Enterprise Server
  • Configuration adjustment when using NSAPI plugin
  • StackSize directive
  • What are statistics slots?
  • What does the "Restart functions not called" message in the error log mean?
  • Proxy Server/NSAPI: runtime errors with NSAPI
• General Programming
  • Description of the NSAPI parameter blocks
  • Calling built-in server functions through NSAPI
  • NSAPI conversion from 1.x servers to 2.x servers
  • Is it possible to pass context-specific attributes from a NSAPI to my servlets?
  • NSAPI plug-in that uses chdir() will not work in Enterprise Server?
• ISAPI vs NSAPI
  • Are there any features that are supported in NSAPI but not in ISAPI ?
  • NSAPI vs ISAPI ?
• SSL
  • Enterprise Server in SSL 3 mode and doing KeepAlive connections.
  • NSAPI netbuf_getc() POST problem during SSL
• Useful ones
  • Web server error codes
  • Security Libray Codes and Messages

Samples

• Certificate information
• Custom Database
• CGI Environment variables
• Dynamically generating customized error pages
• Setting multiple cookies
• File uploads using multipart form-data
• Custom User Authentication
• User Authentication and Cookies
• Extending server-parsed HTML with custom tag see also 4705

Utilities/Hacks

• NSAPI HTTP Proxy by Scott Leersen (source code available)
• CGI Proxy by Scott Leersen (source code available)
• NTrans by Josh Andrew (source code available)
• A DLL to provide NSAPI support for Visual Basic by Steve Caine (source code available)
• Kerberos v4 NSAPI module by Dug Song and Nathan Binkert (source code available)
• Python NSAPI module by Gregory Trubetskoy (source code available)
• Perl/NSAPI Interface by John Detloff (source code available)
• Netscape::Server - framework for integrating Perl and Netscape servers by Ben Sugars
• Perl for NSAPI by Ben Sugars (source code available)
• NSAPI for FASTCGI access by Lundeen & Associates (source code available)
• Using CGIWRAP with NSAPI to make CGIWRAP transparent by Jason Armbruster (source code available)
• NSAPI Authorizer an extended basic authentication written in Delphi by Anders Melander
• NSAPI to ISAPI interface, Mostafa Aboutabl claims to have written something that helps the migration.

Training

• Netscape Training

Others

• PC Magazine tested four secure servers. They tested using CGI under Stronghold against ISAPI and NSAPI extensions to IIS and Netscape.
• CGI Programming Unleashed - Chapter on NSAPI
• Beyond CGI: Using the APIs in PC Magazine (03/97)
• Why not use DELPHI to develop NSAPI extension ?
• Implementing Web Site Client Authentication Using Digital IDsSM and the Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0
• VeriSign Certificate Reader User's Guide
• SSL Test Certificates for Server (free)
• Netscape DevEdge Champions
• Netcraft web server survey look what web servers Netscape is using on .netscape.com