Re: Serving quixote through iis
Patrik Simons <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:43:52 +0200 "Daniele Varrazzo" <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any chance to make iis run an application through many requests? Maybe the simplest thing would be running quixote through Medusa on a private port and letting iis forward it the related request. Is it possible? > > Did anybody face the same problem and has some tip to share, or some scar to show, about that? Scar indeed. I have used SCGI-CGI (http://arbutus.physics.mcmaster.ca/dmc/software/) together with a python scgi server installed as a service. However, SCGI-CGI needs heavy patching to compile under mingw32 and IIS has some annoying CGI bugs. For example, if the status code of the http response is anything but 200, then IIS 5 will replace the response with its own. IIS 6, on the other hand, also replaces the response but doesn't touch the content-length header, leaving your browser waiting for data that won't arrive if your response happens to be longer than the IIS default one. The workaround is to strip away the content-length header before passing the response to IIS. This way your redirects will work again. You'll have to use status code 200 for all the other error pages. Also note http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q176113/ Lately, I've been using an isapi extension instead. This lets me access all the IIS specific server variables as environment variables in the request. See http://www.neotide.fi/quixote/ -- Patrik