IIS 4.0 sending header but no content from ASP files

This message consists of two parts: the content sent from ASP files by IIS 4.0 (old, I know, but for now let's pretend it's 1998), and how to edit IIS's metabase.

I am helping in the setup of a rendundant server, which is supposed to mirror the configuration of our development server. Most everything seems to be working OK on the rendundant server, except it seems not to send any content when ASP files are requested from it. HTML files, however, are displayed properly. Here's an example of a server response for an HTML file as viewed in WebBug:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Cache-Control: max-age=1800 Expires: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 16:19:30 GMT Connection: close Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:49:30 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:50:24 GMT ETag: "0a029e31984c21:e06" Content-Length: 48317

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML lang="en-us"> ... </HTML>

If I take the HTML file and change its extension to ASP, there appears to be nothing in the source of the server response, except for one or two whitespace characters, when viewed in IE6. When viewing the server response in WebBug, it appears like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:46:26 GMT Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGQGGQEG=GOKBIGIDNGBDBJLOHKMPDBMN; path=/ Cache-control: private Transfer-Encoding: chunked

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My understanding of "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" is that it sends the response in two or more chunks, instead of one entire block. Could it be causing the problem?

Also, I downloaded a program called MetaEdit for editing the IIS metabase which contains the server settings. The metabase property which controls whether or not content is sent in the chunked transfer encoding is

AspEnableChunkedEncoding

. When viewing the metabase in MetaEdit, however, there is no property of this name, nor does there appear to be a way to create one. (I want to create it so that I set it to false.) Does anyone know how to create a new property with a name that doesn't already exist in the metabase?

Much obliged for any help, pointers or other useful bits of wisdom.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:20:04 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 1386 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDGQGGQGAV=EKCPEOCANPMAFIPNAAGNGCOO; path=/ Cache-control: private

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> ... </html>

IIS 4.0 sending header but no content from ASP files

Is Text-Encoding: Chunked the problem?

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