Document Footers Do Not Work with ASP Pages (228717)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q228717
We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

Document footers do not work with ASP files.

CAUSE

This occurs because ASP files (and other ISAPI applications) feed their responses to the client directly and have control of keeping the connection open or closing it.

Because IIS cannot determine when ASP (or ISAPI applications for that matter) has completed its request, it cannot determine when to send the footer, or even if it has a connection to send it on.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, use .htm or .html files instead of ASP files, or add server-side include (SSI) directives to the ASP files to specify the footer file.

MORE INFORMATION

For information on using SSI tags, see the "Using Server-Side Include Directives" topic in the product documentation.

(c) Microsoft Corporation 2000, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Kevin Zollman, Microsoft Corporation.

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/22/2005
Keywords:kbpending kbprb KB228717
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