[Xitami] ASP/VBS in Xitami for Windows

[Ron Ackerman]

I too ended up in the filter section, tried this
 .asp=e:\win2k\system32\inetserv E:\WIN2K\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll
Just by chance, Nope it has to be an exe file I guess.

But I'm close, the server recognizes that it is a asp file and returns an
error.

Internal error: your request was unsuccessful
Cannot create CGI process - program not found

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org
[mailto:xitami-admin@lists.xitami.org]On Behalf Of Brian {Hamilton
Kelly}
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 3:00 AM
To: xitami@lists.xitami.org
Subject: RE: [Xitami] ASP/VBS in Xitami for Windows


In message <5.1.1.6.0.20041017213116.00b366e0@mail.mrjdesign.com>
   admin writes:
>
> Of course it's not ASP.
> It's VBS... then again as Ron is saying here, this is the idea I got too
> but I have not found a way to get the ASP.DLL to react to it yet.
> I have the IIS running on port 79 for this purpose and the Xitami on 80.
> Same Idea, lets hope we find the right approach for it.
>
> And in response to the Holy Grail issue, it is simply a question about
> finding a way to reuse three years worth of work that is already
integrated
> to many pages written in the past.

OK then.  What is needed is a way to process a document that's written in
ASP (with all its little embedded bits of <% %>) and massage that into a
"plain" HTML document.

Hmm, sounds like one would need the following:
    Route the .asp file to a filter, running as a CGI program
    Let the filter parse the ASP, performing appropriate substitutions
        for the ASP bits; this in turn would require one to
    Install VBS locally on the server, so that it can act upon the chunks
        of VBS thrown at it by the CGI parser.

Ought not to be too difficult (but would probably run like a dog).

There was another company apart from Chillisoft that had an ASP plug-in
for Xitami; I tried it out about four years ago because I thought that it
might be useful for a class that we teach.  However, at that time, the
VB that it handled wasn't up-to-speed on things like the Session Object,
and we were forced to continue using IIS for that class.

--
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                     bhk@dsl.co.uk
   "I don't use Linux. I prefer to use an OS supported by a large multi-
   national vendor, with a good office suite, excellent network/internet
   software and decent hardware support."


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