[thelist] RE: IIS 5: Is it Bad to Map .css to asp.dll?

[Andy Waite]

>From: "James Aylard" <webmaster at equilon-mrc.com>
>    I am not certain whether this is strictly an IIS question, since I
>suspect the same thing can be accomplished through other means 
>on other web
>server platforms and other server-side scripting languages. 
>But a partially
>formed thought occurred to me: what if I mapped .css files to 
>the asp.dll in
>IIS -- can I include ASP code in a stand-alone CSS file to 
>conditionally
>create a client-side style sheet?
>    Lo and behold, the answer is, yes, I can! In theory 
>(remember, this is
>based on a partially formed thought), this would seem to 
>provide some neat
>benefits, especially for cross-browser CSS.
>    But the question occurs to me: are there pitfalls, from a 
>web-server
>admin standpoint, to doing this? Security issues? Unintended 
>consequences?
>    Caveat: I am not a server admin, and don't pretend to be.
>    Enlightenment, anyone? :)
>
>James Aylard

I just rename my CSS file so that the extension is .css.asp. I should
probably also be setting the ContentType but it seems to work without doing
that.

I can't see why there'd be any security risks over and over normal ASP
considerations.

The downfall is that if you have an error in your ASP within the CSS file,
you won't see the error, only your page without the styles applied.

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Andy Waite <andy.waite at company-net.com>
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