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• 08-04-2008, 4:50 PM

  theallan Joined on 08-04-2008, 8:36 PM Posts 2

  Access CGI environment variables Reply Contact Hello all, I'm writing a little CGI C# program which needs to read environment variables such as QUERY_STRING in order to do it's required processing. To do this I was using System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(), which works great on the CLI, but as soon as I have it under IIS CGI I get: Unhandled Exception: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.EnvironmentPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed So the question is, how do I go about getting QUERY_STRING (etc) from a CGI application in IIS? Thanks Allan

• 08-05-2008, 2:01 AM

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  ksingla Joined on 06-14-2006, 3:02 AM Redmond, WA Posts 562	Re: Access CGI environment variables Reply Contact Hi Allan, Either you need to run worker process as a user which has EnvironmentPermission or grant EnvironmentPermission to your CGI explicitly. You can follow instructions specified here. Thanks, Kj

• 08-05-2008, 4:11 AM

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  theallan Joined on 08-04-2008, 8:36 PM Posts 2

  Re: Access CGI environment variables Reply Contact Brilliant - thanks for the link Kj! Out of interest - the first line of the article says "Not that I recommend CGI" - could anyone tell me if there is a better way to deploy my application in .Net? Basically it is a text file interpreter - take a text file, munge it around a bit, and then fire it out. With CGI in IIS I can have any file with a particular extension (say .allan) processed by the compiled binary. Is there a better way of doing this in IIS? Thanks again Allan

• 08-07-2008, 2:12 AM

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  ksingla Joined on 06-14-2006, 3:02 AM Redmond, WA Posts 562	Re: Access CGI environment variables Reply Contact Writing a handler might be a better to do this. If you are a C# person, search for IHttpHandler and you will find plenty of samples on internet. Thanks, Kj