From: r2d2@... (Niklas Frykholm)
Date: 2001-05-22T18:41:25+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15537] Re: IIS application mapping

>I am starting to get the idea of how to get at the query string and also at 
>the posted data.  The CGI module makes that pretty easy.
>
>Now, my question is, what is the advantage of using IIS with this mapping as 
>opposed to just using a simple http deamon of some kind?  Do you know of 
>anyway to get to all those nifty IIS objects, like the ObjectContext, 
>Response, Request, etc. from within the ruby program that gets called?

No. I prefer to just use plain CGI, and not IIS specific things, to ensure that
the program is portable across different web servers. Actually I haven't
even used IIS that much. I've worked mostly with Apache and Xitami.

I think the cgi module has support for most of the things you want to do, such
as cookies and different response codes. There is also a cgi/session.rb file
for session support, but I haven't tried using that.

// Niklas