[Zope] Zope via IIS: How does ASPN do it?

[Andy McKay]

If you hang on just a day or two, I will be releasing a document on how we
do it.

The answer is we dont :)
IIS serves some pages, Zope others and a cisco redirector handles who goes
where.

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Strasser" <M.Strasser@myrealbox.com>
To: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: [Zope] Zope via IIS: How does ASPN do it?


> There have been recent questions about routing Zope requests through IIS.
> ActiveState has a way of doing it for ASPN and I would like to know how.
>
> I have noticed (by snooping with Proxomitron) that a request to
> http://www.activestate.com is served by IIS 5.0. Here is some stuff from
> Proxomitron's log window:
>
>   HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>   Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
>   Content-Location: http://www.activestate.com/index.html
>   Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:48:31 GMT
>   Content-Type: text/html
>
> However, when I request http://www.activestate.com/ASPN the request is
> served by Zope:
>
>   HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>   Server: Zope/Zope 2.3.0 (binary release, python 1.5.2, win32-x86)
> ZServer/1.1b1
>   Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:51:33 GMT
>   Content-Type: text/html
>
> (The second line is wrapped.)
>
> The only widely-available information on Zope via IIS is Brian Hooper's
> How-To (http://www.zope.org/Members/brianh/iis_howto) but that relies on
> setting a Windows extension .pcgi to trigger use of PCGI. ActiveState
> doesn't do that as far as I can tell.
>
> Maybe there is some feature of IIS 5.0 I have missed. Would anyone from
> ActiveState like to let us in on the secret?
>
> --
> Michael Strasser
> Brisbane, Australia
>
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