Re: IIS : access to cmd.exe and multiple commands on one line

[Daniel Polombo <polombo () cartel-info fr>]

Rainer Duffner wrote:


> That may well be the case.
> It gets changed during service-packs and hotfix updates.
> Also, the perl-manual mentions something in the direction of "some 
> functionality crept in...". 
>
> Anyway, as another poster mentioned, the whole commandline-tools are not 
> consistent - and thus not usable beyond simple "batch-files". 

Actually, I believe Ivy Lane hit the nail on the head. The '&' is interpreted 
by IIS as a CGI parameter separator, and something in the syntax irks the 
server, which returns an invalid parameter error. This is a CGI error, and not 
a cmd.exe error. I didn't see that immediately because I'm parsing the errors 
to extract only certain parts of the returned HTML page.

Therefore I am now trying to find a way to pass a '&' to the cmd.exe without 
it being interpreted first by the webserver. Hex- or unicode-encoding it is 
useless, since IIS will always expand those characters before actually 
treating the request.

Is there some kind of escaping sequence for an URL? RFC 1738 (URL) only states 
that '&' is a reserved character, and that %-encoding them should modify the 
behaviour of the webserver (ie, that the URL would be actually interpreted 
differently with and without %-encoding for a reserved character like '&'), 
but it doesn't appear to modify IIS' behaviour.

Perhaps there are some IIS-specific niceties here as well?


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