Re: [Cppcms-users] feedback after testing cppcms svn trunk compiled with msvc2005

[Cristian O. <one...@gm...>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Cristian Oneț <one...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently testing cppcms from svn trunk compiled with msvc2005 (I
> know that the wiki states that only MSVC9 and MSVC10 are supported but
> MSVC8 works just as fine).
> As a first impression I would like to say that the lib looks really
> good. I intend to use it in combination with apache+mod_fastcgi.
> After a few days of working with it I found the following issues and I
> want to share them with you:
> 1. The application does not handle shutdown requests sent by
> mod_fastcgi; a simple solution would be to add the mechanism used in
> libfcgi (the fastcgi client implementation provided by
> www.fastcgi.com) see the attached
> apache_mod_fastcgi_nice_shutdown.patch - nothe that the implementation
> could be improved to use a cppcms thread instead of _beginthread.
> 2. When trying the hello/form example I was getting an infinite loop
> in the application due to the fact that an input stream was tested
> only for eof and not for validity see
> http_request_infinite_loop.patch.
> These two where critical issues that I would like to see solved
> somehow in cppcms. The following two patches are just insignificant
> improvements:
> 3. Enable using external boost lib while running cmake configure and
> add an extra name for the zlib library on Windows
> cmake_permit_using_external_boost_and_zlib_on_win_name.patch
> 4. This fixes the only code incompatibility I have found on msvc2005
> (mscv_2005_compatibility.patch) but googleing revealed that this can
> be fixed using a never winsdk so this is only important if upgrading
> is not an option
> This is all for now.
>
> Regards,
> Cristian Oneț
>

Sorry I have one more patch that I forgot about. When running with
apache+mod_fastcgi the application runs in context of
NTAUTHORITY\SYSTEM which can't use CryptAcquireContext the way it's
used by a normal user (so it's failing) see [1] but from the msdn docs
[2] it seems that cppcms should call CryptAcquireContext with
CRYPT_VERIFYCONTEXT flag (see the flag's description).

[1] http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/32785121/how-to-prevent-microsoft-csps-from-using-dpapi.aspx
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379886%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Regards,
Cristian Oneț