I've used an IIS hack engine for a good while, and finally got around to
switching to the main C::E::FastCGI with a few issues.
1. It works fine, apparently on IIS5
2. It does not work, at least not the way I have it configured, on IIS6
The issue revolves around the IIS handling of some request parameters; I
get:
PATH_INFO: /m3analyst/arm.fcgi/index
PATH_TRANSLATED: C:\Sites\ARM\arm.fcgi\index
SCRIPT_NAME: /m3analyst/arm.fcgi
Problem #1 - the condition is: ( $env->{SERVER_SOFTWARE} =~
/IIS\/[6-9]\.[0-9]/ )
This seems to explain why IIS5 is not affected in the same way. The
FastCGI component works just fine on IIS5, so I guess this ought to be
included/processed.
Problem #2 - FastCGI engine cannot handle IIS with file extension mapped
configuration for FastCGI
Obviously, IIS is broken with respect to some request parameters.
The algorthm for fixing IIS appears to be to pop items off a split
PATH_INFO and a split PATH_TRANSLATED as long as they are the same,
unshifting (!) the consistent items into a new value for PATH_INFO.
Whatever was left on the old PATH_INFO is put into SCRIPT_NAME. The
result of my request above, therefore, is:
PATH_INFO = /arm.fcgi/index
SCRIPT_NAME = /m3analyst
Since this is incorrect against the namespacing, Catalyst hits the
default action for everything.
This ought to be:
PATH_INFO = /index
SCRIPT_NAME = /m3analyst/arm.fcgi
My hacky IIS engine did a rather simpler:
my $path = $env{PATH_INFO};
my $script = $env{SCRIPT_NAME};
my $length = length($script);
if (substr($path, 0, $length) eq $script) {
$env{PATH_INFO} = substr($path, $length);
}
i.e., I left SCRIPT_NAME alone, but removed it from the front of
PATH_INFO when it matched exactly.
The documentation implies that a wildcard mapping is recommended
(although this is not supported by IIS5). I suspect the algorithm is
completely correct on IIS6/7 with a wildcard mapping.
Is this likely to require a patch to allow FastCGI to work with file
extension mapping? Shall I write one?
All the best
Stuart
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Stuart Watt
ARM Product Developer
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