Gene,
One solution that works for us is to configure IIS to use a custom 404
page on that domain, and to check for the existence of pages prior to
serving them. Make the custom 404 page your index.cfm page, and your
problem should go away.
Doing it this way, you don't even need the filename in your URL, making
it even prettier... just use slash-delimited parameters, and parse them
out however you wish in the index.cfm page.
Ron Allen Hornbaker
President/CTO
Humankind Systems, Inc.
http://humankindsystems.com
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 6:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Parsing URLs on IIS 4
>
>
> Can anyone suggest what settings in IIS 4 / SP5 could cause
> problems with
> slash-delimited query strings?
>
> We use a well-known CF web hosting service for a client site.
> To improve visibility
> on search engines, we use slash-delimited query strings
> rather than the standard
> name=value pairs, and use the cgi.path_info variable to translate.
>
> Late last week, the server began coughing on the
> slash-delimited query strings. It
> appears that the server believes the slashes indicate
> folders, and it gives 404 errors
> whenever a slash-delimited URL query string is accessed.
>
> We figured they had just installed SP6 or 6A, since members
> of this list had
> variously suggested one or the other may cause such problems.
> The host, however, says
> the server is still using SP5.
>
> The query strings causing problems look like this:
>
> www.greenthumbsup.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/ShowPage/PageID/6
>
> Strangely, once the server throws a 404 on a URL like this,
> it continues to throw the
> same error even if you manually strip the URL back to the
> default top page (which runs
> fine if you access it before going to a page using a
> slash-delimited query string):
>
> www.greenthumbsup.com/index.cfm
>
> Any ideas greatly appreciated!
>
> Gene Kraybill
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