Can't read query string if default index file name is omitted?

Question

Is there an issue with IIS or ASP Classic where *Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")* returns blank if no default file name is given in the URL? On my local developer machine, I can do

http://localhost/xslt/?opcs/abc

which returns "opcs/abc". However, on our ancient web server, it returns nothing. I have to explicitly give it the default file name in the URL. Like so

http://localhost/xslt/default.asp?opcs/abc

While nothing too major, it is a little bit of a annoyance. One way I can maybe think of remidying the problem is have Javascript read the URL and return everything after the ?.

Unfortunately, I do not know what version of IIS or ASP we are using.

Thank you.

Answer 1

That sounds like a bug, I never experienced that when I used to do a lot of ASP. Make sure you are patched up to the latest version.

Answer 2

If you're running IIS 4.0, this may very well be the case. So you're really stuck with this ancient piece of software (and probably hardware) ? :)