RE: [cobalt-users] Re: ASP BROKE on Raq4 ?

["H.P. Noordam" <bno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Bruce Timberlake [mailto:bruce@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Verzonden: zaterdag 4 oktober 2003 17:58
> Aan: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Onderwerp: [cobalt-users] Re: ASP BROKE on Raq4 ?
> 
> 
> > Not a big ASP programmer, but doesn't the ASP on windows 
> use some VB 
> > scripting that the Chili!Soft version doesn't do or see?? I don't 
> > think you can just drop any ASP files built on a windows IIS server 
> > and expect them to work on the Linux side.
> 


Exactly.

Chilisoft asp on cobalt  implements a different vbscript version than
iis. Only the latest asp one 4.0 version offers complete vbscript 5
compatibility. Anything using classess to pick an example will work on
IIS, and will fail on the cobalts.

Just an other example; includes with relative paths do not accept
straight filenames on the cobalts (need ./ in front of em to make
chilisoft believe it is a relative path), while iis has no problems with
it.

Most file upload modules that do not use a com object will also fail, i
suppose because they use undocumentented funstuff that works out on iis,
but does not on chilisoft asp.

I transfered several real life asp applications from win2000 servers to
a raq550, but none of the transfers was free of code-rewriting. The
comparison with 20 years ago porting basic applications from one system
to another comes to mind. It always "almost works".

Bob.