>From RFC3875 Section 4.1,5:
The PATH_INFO variable specifies a path to be interpreted by the CGI script. It identifies the resource or sub-resource to be returned by the CGI script, and is derived from the portion of the URI path hierarchy following the part that identifies the script itself. So, basically, my Perl script is taking a non-compliant IIS/CGI PATH_INFO and making it compliant. Microsoft sucks. Hopefully, my efforts will help the next poor guy trying to configure Fossil on IIS. Thank you, Tony Perovic Compumation, Inc. ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Hipp Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 12:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on IIS On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Tony Perovic <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This is driving me nuts...... I created a CGI file for my repository on the server: It seems that Fossil uses the PATH_INFO to construct its reply in CGI mode. I achieved the correct results by writing a Perl script that strips the SCRIPT_NAME portion from the PATH_INFO environment variable before invoking Fossil: $path = $ENV{"PATH_INFO"}; $script = $ENV{"SCRIPT_NAME"}; if ($path =~ m/^$script/) { # PATH_INFO starts with SCRIPT_NAME? $ENV{"PATH_INFO"} = substr($path, length($script)); } All Fossil / CGI requests must be processed through this Perl script. Thus, I concluded, Fossil/CGI cannot possibly work on Windows/IIS without scripting. Fossil assumes that PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME are set up as described in RFC3875. If what you say is correct, ISS appears not to follow RFC3875 and hence does not really support CGI, but rather something that is merely CGI-like. Q: Is this correct? Am I missing something? In fact, given the above analysis, it shouldn't work in Linux either, yet, (I assume) it does. The main Fossil website (http://www.fossil-scm.org/) is just an instance of Fossil running on a Linux box as CGI. See http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/selfhost.wiki for additional information, including the scripts used to enable CGI on the various Fossil mirrors. Q: Can somebody please explain what is or isn't happening in Linux that is or isn't happening in Windows/IIS? Reminds me of a haiku I read years ago: Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Tony Perovic Compumation, Inc. ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Tony Perovic Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 3:58 PM To: '[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>' Subject: [fossil-users] Fossil on IIS Anybody get Fossil working as a "CGI script" on Microsoft Server 2003 / IIS? I'm trying to access multiple repositories with one script as described at: http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/server.wiki Learned more than I ever wanted to know about IIS/CGI/Scripting. [cid:[email protected]] TONY PEROVIC [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.compumation.com<http://www.compumation.com> 205 W. Grand Ave., Ste. 121 Bensenville, IL 60106 630-860-1921<tel:630-860-1921> Phone 630-860-1928<tel:630-860-1928> Fax _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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