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Re: IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

mailant — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:33:00 GMT

Here's the fix for this behavior: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/930451

Re: IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

dist0rti0n — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 20:54:59 GMT

Thanks!!

Re: IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

bills — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 01:09:32 GMT

ouch - thanks for the report. I have confirmed this is a bug. We are working on a fix now.

Bill

Re: IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

dist0rti0n — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:18:53 GMT

I'm using the managment console that ships with Vista, no third party APIs or tools.

Thanks!

Re: IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

bills — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:54:24 GMT

I haven't seen this before. Are you using the UI to 'add a script map' or some other programmatic API?

bill

IIS 7 incorrectly strips values from web.config when adding a Script Map

dist0rti0n — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:20:24 GMT

I've noticed that when you add a script map in IIS 7, IIS will alter your web.config and actually remove values it has nothing to do with.

For example,

<applicationSettings>
    <Dealers.Web.Properties.Settings>
    <setting name="Dealers_Web_UserAgentsService_UserAgentsService"
        serializeAs="String">
        <value>http://useragents.vertagen.com/UserAgentsService.asmx</value>
    </setting>
    </Dealers.Web.Properties.Settings>
</applicationSettings>

Is changed to

<applicationSettings>
    <Dealers.Web.Properties.Settings>
    <setting name="Dealers_Web_UserAgentsService_UserAgentsService" serializeAs="String">
        <value></value>
    </setting>
    </Dealers.Web.Properties.Settings>
</applicationSettings>

It appears that if IIS sees any value in your web.config that is stored in a <tag>value</tag> format, it will strip the value out.

I think its easy to see that this is a serious problem, does anyone know if there's a work-around or patch available?