Need .htm to go to both ASP.NET and for files

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Hi;

This appears to be a bit of a problem. Our portal's help system is composed
of .htm files. So if the requested file is application/help/datasource.htm,
that is a file on disk that should be returned by IIS.

We also have htm files (reports) that are stored in the database. Those are
returned using:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="report-view.*" type="ReportView"/>
</httpHandlers>

And for these we have to set it in IIS that .htm files are passes to ASP.NET
and do not require that the file exists.

However, when we set this in IIS, then the help.htm files are not returned.
How can we set it that if an httpHandler handles it. it returns the .htm file
but otherwise it looks on disk for the file.

It seems to me there must be a way to do this because this must be a common
need - htm files returned by both HttpHandlers and as files on disk.

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

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

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Mar 16, 9:33 pm, David Thielen <[e-mail]:

Hi;

This appears to be a bit of a problem. Our portal's help system is composed
of .htm files. So if the requested file is application/help/datasource.htm,
that is a file on disk that should be returned by IIS.

We also have htm files (reports) that are stored in the database. Those are
returned using:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="report-view.*" type="ReportView"/>
</httpHandlers>

And for these we have to set it in IIS that .htm files are passes to ASP.NET
and do not require that the file exists.

However, when we set this in IIS, then the help.htm files are not returned.
How can we set it that if an httpHandler handles it. it returns the .htm file
but otherwise it looks on disk for the file.

It seems to me there must be a way to do this because this must be a common
need - htm files returned by both HttpHandlers and as files on disk.

Try to add

<add path="/application/help/*.htm" verb="*"
type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />

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awkard but it works - thanks

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

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


"Alexey Smirnov" wrote:

On Mar 16, 9:33 pm, David Thielen <[e-mail]:

Hi;

This appears to be a bit of a problem. Our portal's help system is composed
of .htm files. So if the requested file is application/help/datasource.htm,
that is a file on disk that should be returned by IIS.

We also have htm files (reports) that are stored in the database. Those are
returned using:
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="*" path="report-view.*" type="ReportView"/>
</httpHandlers>

And for these we have to set it in IIS that .htm files are passes to ASP.NET
and do not require that the file exists.

However, when we set this in IIS, then the help.htm files are not returned.
How can we set it that if an httpHandler handles it. it returns the .htm file
but otherwise it looks on disk for the file.

It seems to me there must be a way to do this because this must be a common
need - htm files returned by both HttpHandlers and as files on disk.

Try to add

<add path="/application/help/*.htm" verb="*"
type="System.Web.StaticFileHandler" />

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

As long as you've add the ".htm" extension mapping (in IIS virtual dir
configuration setting) to aspnet_isapi.dll, those .htm requests will be
handled by ASP.NET runtime rather than IIS's original static file
extensions. Therefore, if you haven't a dedicated handler for those
configured extensions(and want to serf them as normal static documents),
you need to add the "StaticFileHandler" for them in web.config
<httphandlerssection

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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