Hi!

My company is checking the possibility of running our web application locally, using Cassini Web Server.
The application is written in JScript.NET. The app mostly appears to work, except for two points:

- we make extensive use of XMLHTTP, and the server pages return empty response
(responseCode=200, responseText ="") seemingly at random. I have to do more testing before asking a concrete question,
but I can't help mentioning it )) . This is really strange; the same page may work one second and fail the next.

- we serve files using urls like: http://myapp/getdoc.aspx/document_id/file_name
where getdoc.aspx is implemented like this:
<%
var s = Request.PathInfo; // contains "document_id/file_name"
var documentId = ..; // split PathInfo to doc ID and file name
var fileName = ..;
// now we can find document's directory from ID
var filePath = findDocumentDir(documentId) + fileName;
Response.WriteFile(filePath)
%>
This is very convenient, since all document's resources (images, stylesheets etc. with relative URLs) are found automatically,
without using HTTP redirection or putting custom <BASE> tag in documents (yuck!). However, in Cassini such URLs produce HTTP 404 "not found". Is there a way around this?

thanks in advance,
Boris.

Thanks for your reply. It's not a problem to change the code, of course. The problem is relative URLs - if I return a document with <img src="myimg.gif"> in it, the browser will try to fetch the image from http://myapp/myimg.gif and fail. I need to be able to trap this request and serve the image from document's own directory. Before we discovered the PathInfo trick, we used to set up redirection in IIS: requests for /myapp/doc/ are redirected to /myapp/getdoc.aspx?path=$P. But then, to make relative links work, we had to insert <base href="/myapp/doc/"> into documents on the fly. If Cassini supports redirection, we may go back to this method, but with PathInfo the solution is much more elegant.

best regards,
Boris.

Thanks for the suggestion. As you said, it doesn't solve our main problem - that of relative links.
There are many URL rewriting modules for ASP.NET, is it possible to use anything like that in Cassini?
Or implement a custom 404 handler?

/Would be a shame if such a small detail prevented us from using Cassini.../

thanks in advance,
Boris.

Boris, we'll definitely take a look at it. Request processor of our Cassini for ASP.NET 2.0 has the same code base as Dmitry's sample. It's surprising the behavior between the two is different.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

Boris,

We have logged the issue and will do our best to fix it in the next release.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.

Boris,

We are currently focusing our attention on delivering HttpVPN, so it will be probably a few months before the next release of another incarnation if Cassini, but we plan to do it this year.

Best regards,
UltiDev Team.