Aha! MarkB helped me figure out a work-around. To enable up-to-date access
to an href-exe's config file, including custom sections, you need the
following:
1. Enable anon access for the vdir via IIS config.
2. Use a web.config to allow .config files to be served [1] even if it's
not an ASP.NET application.
Neither of these make sense to me, but they do work.
Chris
[1]
<configuration>
<system.web>
<httpHandlers>
<remove verb="*" path="*.config" />
<add verb="*" path="web.config"
type="System.Web.HttpForbiddenHandler"/>
</httpHandlers>
</system.web>
</configuration>
>Actually, the config file *has* been downloaded, but so far I haven't been
>able to get the custom config sections out of it either. I think it's a
><gasp!> bug. The work-around is to do an HTTP GET manually to pull down
the
>config file and pull out the appropriate XML sections manually. This will
>also work around the "opportunity for improvement" where the config will
>only download once, even if it's been changed.
>
>Chris
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Richard Case" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 1:54 AM
>Subject: [DOTNET] Rich client deployment over the web
>
>
>> Hi All,
>> We are looking to deploy our rich client app over the web. The
download
>of
>> the assembly into the download cache and the showing of the form works
>fine.
>> Along with the app we have got a configuration file (also contained in
the
>> virtual directory of the webserver) that holds configuration settings.
>When
>> the application that has been downloaded to a remote machine tries to
>access
>> the configuration file it doesn't get the setting requested. I assume
this
>> is because the configuration file hasn't been downloaded. Does anyone
know
>> how I can make sure the configuration file is downloaded along with the
>> assembly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Richard
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