[Zope] Re: Windows Server 2003, II6 and ASP404 vs form posts

[Steve McMahon]

For anyone else who might search the list in the future:

Microsoft has confirmed that ASP error handlers in current versions of 
IIS 6 do not, can not, and will not -- no matter what the security 
settings --  get at POST data. There's a discussion of the changes at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/11/29/Child_URL_Execution_and_SSI_exec.aspx

The author confirmed that the changes also affect custom error handlers.

So, the days of serving Zope pages on IIS via the 404handler.asp 
approach are pretty much over.

Steve McMahon wrote:
> Anyone out there using Zope inside IIS 6 on Server 2003 via the ASP404 
> technique?
> 
> I've done this successfully on Windows 200 and XP, but on Server 2003, 
> IIS does not seem to be passing the post data to the error handler.
> 
> When Win2003 was young, there was some list traffic on a similar 
> problem, and Brian Sullivan figured out that IIS was reporting a 
> REQUEST_METHOD of "GET" even for POST requests. However, the POST data 
> was still passing, so it was possible to check Request.totalBytes (this 
> is the ASP Request, not Zope's) to determine the real nature of the 
> request.
> 
> Now, though, many an IIS patch later, IIS is invoking the error handler 
> with http content length set to zero (even though it reports that 
> content type is www-urlencoded). So, form submissions do nothing.
> 
> And, if there's nothing to be done about this, does anyone know if the 
> Fresh Logic or Enfold ISAPI solutions have any way to intermix serving 
> of IIS and Zope content? If I didn't have to do that, I'd be using 
> Apache, and be done by now ;) .
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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