Send page requset of page.txt to IIS.ASP

[David Thielen]

Hi;

This works fine on my development system but fails on IIS on Win 2003. I
have requests for filename.txt, filename.rtf, etc that must go to my ASP.NET
code. I have the following in my web.config:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="report-create.*" type="ReportCreate"/>
<add verb="*" path="report-view.*" type="ReportView"/>
<add verb="*" path="template-file.*" type="TemplateFile"/>
</httpHandlers>

And in IIS I went for my app to properties, Directory tab, Configuration
button, and added application exceptions for .txt, .rtf, etc giving them the
executable c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspn et_isapi.dll

I then restarted IIS.

But, it still does not send those requests to my code. If I use an extension
of .aspx then I do get the request.

Any ideas?

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[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

As for the Httphanders registering ,based on my experience, the path
attributre of httphandlers <addelement in web.config can only support
wildcard in the filename part, but not the document extension. Based on my
local test, so far we can get the following path to work when registering
custom httphandler for IIS hosted ASP.NET web application:

1) path="*", the handler will process all the comming ASP.NET requests

2) path="*.ext", the handler will process all the comming ASP.NET request
point to a certain document extension type.
For your scenario, you may need to explicitly add all those extension types
in the <httphandlerssection( *.doc, *.txt, .....).

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

[David Thielen]

Hi;

Tried that - still no luck.

To repeat, when running under Visual Studio, then
<add verb="*" path="report-create.*" type="ReportCreate"/>
works great.

When running on Windows 2003/IIS then
<add verb="*" path="report-create.*" type="ReportCreate"/>
<add verb="*" path="report-create.txt" type="ReportCreate"/>
both do not work for report-create.txt. And report-create.aspx does go to my
code - but then IE thinks it's xml or html and says it's a malformed file.

And it returns very very fast when I go to report-create.txt so I am
guessing ASP.NET is never given the request. Is there something I need to do
beside the MIME types in IIS to have ASP.NET get files with this extension?

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david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm


"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:

Hello Dave,

As for the Httphanders registering ,based on my experience, the path
attributre of httphandlers <addelement in web.config can only support
wildcard in the filename part, but not the document extension. Based on my
local test, so far we can get the following path to work when registering
custom httphandler for IIS hosted ASP.NET web application:

1) path="*", the handler will process all the comming ASP.NET requests

2) path="*.ext", the handler will process all the comming ASP.NET request
point to a certain document extension type.
For your scenario, you may need to explicitly add all those extension types
in the <httphandlerssection( *.doc, *.txt, .....).

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I already did that. I set it for "Web SItes", "Default Web Site", and
"portal" (which is the website of my app). I am using the .NET 2.0 filter
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspn et_isapi.dll and for verbs
I selected ALL.

Still doesn't work. Any other ideas?

--
thanks - dave
david_at_windward_dot_net
http://www.windwardreports.com

Cubicle Wars - http://www.windwardreports.com/film.htm


"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:

Hello Dave,

Thanks for your reply.

the VS 2005 Test server is a manged application which will intercept all
the requests from client browser, and pass it to ASP.NET runtime engine.
While for IIS hosted scenario, all the requests first arrive IIS and IIS
will filter those requests that will not be processed by ASP.NET engine.

thus, those static file extensions(like jpg, txt, css ....) won't be
processed by ASP.NET by default. That's why the following handler setting
not work:

<add verb="*" path="report-create.txt" type="ReportCreate"/>

since .txt extension request is processed by IIS directly(without router to
ASP.NET). You need to add the extension mapping for those particular
extension in IIS also. I've attached a screenshot on the IIS extension
mapping in IIS manager console.

For the below path setting, it is not supported by ASP.NET httphandler so
far(wildcard in extension name):

<add verb="*" path="report-create.*" type="ReportCreate"/>

Hope this helps. Please feel free to let me know if there is anything
unclear on this.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the followup.

I've also found your another new thread below:

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet
Subject: Set IHttpHandler for all files in a directory?

I've posted my reply there and please feel free to post in that thread.
Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

[David Thielen]

Found it - the post by q in the other thread. I had to turn off verify that
file exists. Works great now.

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"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the followup.

I've also found your another new thread below:

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet
Subject: Set IHttpHandler for all files in a directory?

I've posted my reply there and please feel free to post in that thread.
Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Good news :)

Seems still caused by IIS setting.

Have a good day!
Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.