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

[Brian Sullivan]

> 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:
>


I think that is not 100% true-- I am not sure where the difference
lies -- but as we discussed I am using ASP404 on Windows 2003 (at
http://www.coursesbywire.com) with form Posting functioning.

The only issue (that I ran up against and had to solve) is that the
method used in ASP404 to determine whether the original request was a
POST or a GET no longer works on Win2003 (as it did on Win2000) -- it
is necessary to introduce a kludge in the ASP code.



> 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.



Not quite -- but maybe numbered. I agree though that starting out now
using it when it was not previously in use might be a bad plan.  I am
not totally sure what is causing your problem but on my (fully patched
Win2003)server the Post data is available.

I had a look at Enfold's Proxy when I this issue first came up for me
but found that it did not solve my problem (though it could be that I
just didn't understand something about it). In my case putting Apache
in front did not seem a reasonable solution either as I am running IIS
on the box and needed it to stay.