wsc-mvc/docs/TEST-RESULTS.md

WSC-MVC — Test Results

Host under test: win2025test (Tailscale 100.127.62.31), Windows Server 2025 Standard, build 10.0.26100, 64-bit. Access: SSH (key-based, Administrator) from the OpenClaw Linux host, driving cscript/powershell remotely. Sites: WscMvc (*:8090, physical path C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\public; project root through the M1/M2 sections below before the public/ restructure) and, from the “test harness split” section onward, WscMvcTests (*:8091, C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\test-app\public). Both 64-bit, no managed code. Date: 2026-09-19.

M0 — Environment and feasibility

Check	Result
Windows version / arch	PASS — Server 2025 Standard, 10.0.26100, 64-bit
IIS + Classic ASP (Web-ASP) + CGI/ISAPI installed	PASS
URL Rewrite module installed	PASS (rewrite.dll registered as global module)
WebAdministration PowerShell module	PASS (v1.0.0.0)
WSC/COM runtime (scrobj.dll) present	PASS (System32 and SysWOW64)
regsvr32/cscript/wscript present	PASS
Minimal WSC register/instantiate/call/unregister/re-register outside IIS	PASS — see M1 component tests below (folded into M1 since the same components serve both gates)

Command: cscript //nologo tests\Test-Components.vbs — see M1.

M1 — Vertical HTTP slice

WSH component smoke test

Command:

cscript //nologo C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\tests\Test-Components.vbs

Result: PASS

PASS: /hello -> 200 OK | text/html; charset=utf-8 | Hello from WSC-MVC!
PASS: unknown route -> 404 Not Found
RESULT: ALL PASS

HTTP integration test

Command:

powershell -File C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\tests\Test-Http.ps1 -BaseUrl http://localhost:8090

Result: PASS

PASS: GET /hello status 200
PASS: GET /hello content-type
PASS: GET /hello body
PASS: GET /Framework/Application.wsc denied
RESULT: ALL PASS

Also verified directly from the Linux host over the tailnet:

curl -i http://100.127.62.31:8090/hello

-> HTTP/1.1 200 OK, Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8, body Hello from WSC-MVC!. PASS

Direct source/config access denied

GET /Framework/Application.wsc (and by the same hiddenSegments mechanism, Controllers/, tests/, tools/, docs/) -> 404 Not Found. PASS (covered by Test-Http.ps1 above for the .wsc case; other directories share the identical web.config rule and were not individually re-tested by automated script, only spot-checked manually).

Safe failure on broken/missing registration

Steps: unregister both components -> request /hello -> observe safe 500 with no leaked path/exception -> re-register -> confirm recovery.

• From the VM itself (curl http://localhost:8090/hello while unregistered): HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error, Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8, body exactly Internal Server Error (our own Default.asp error branch). PASS
• From a remote/tailnet client under the same unregistered condition: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error with IIS's own generic friendly-error HTML (no path/exception content either). PASS — see docs/DECISIONS.md for why local vs. remote differ (IIS httpErrors errorMode=DetailedLocalOnly, expected default behavior, not a bug).
• cscript //nologo tests\Test-Components.vbs while unregistered: FAIL: could not create WscMvc.Application - ActiveX component can't create object (test script correctly reports FAILURE, exit code 1 — this is the expected result of this specific check, proving the failure path is real and detectable, not silently swallowed).
• After tools\Register-Components.ps1: HTTP and WSH tests both back to PASS (shown above).

Reversible unregistration

Command sequence:

powershell -File tools\Register-Components.ps1
powershell -File tools\Unregister-Components.ps1
powershell -File tools\Register-Components.ps1

Result: PASS, but only after a fix — see docs/DECISIONS.md finding on regsvr32 /s /u not actually removing .wsc registry entries on this host. tools\Unregister-Components.ps1 now verifies and, when needed, explicitly removes exactly this project's ProgID/CLSID pair. Confirmed via direct registry inspection (HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Classes\WscMvc.Application / WscMvc.HomeController and their CLSID subtrees) before and after each step, not just exit codes.

Concurrency (basic)

Command: two curl requests to http://100.127.62.31:8090/hello fired in parallel from bash (& + wait). Result: PASS — both returned 200, both bodies exactly Hello from WSC-MVC!, no cross-request leakage or interference observed. This is a basic smoke check only, not a load test (out of scope for M1).

Not yet run / out of scope for M1

• Formal 400/405 method-not-allowed handling — routing table doesn't exist until M3.
• Broader concurrency/load testing — deferred to M6 per IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.
• 32-bit app-pool path — not exercised; all app pools on this host are 64-bit and no 32-bit requirement has appeared. Revisit if a future dependency needs 32-bit COM.

M1 gate status: PASS

All SPEC §14 acceptance criteria for M1 were run on real Windows/IIS (not inferred) and passed, including one real defect found and fixed during testing (unregistration). Proceeding to M2 (lifecycle/error-handling generalization) is unblocked.

M2 — Lifecycle, central error handling, correlation-safe diagnostics

WSH component tests (RequestContext + Application with ctx)

Command:

cscript //nologo C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\tests\Test-Components.vbs

Result: PASS (after fixing three real defects found while getting here — see docs/DECISIONS.md: Property Get outside a Class block failing registration; FormatNumber leaking a locale comma into correlation ids; Randomize/Rnd() colliding within the same clock tick):

PASS: RequestContext.Path
PASS: RequestContext.HttpMethod
PASS: RequestContext.CorrelationId non-empty (32810-radD62B0)
PASS: RequestContext.ElapsedMs non-negative (0)
PASS: two RequestContext instances have distinct CorrelationIds
PASS: Application.Run(/hello) statusLine
PASS: Application.Run(/hello) contentType
PASS: Application.Run(/hello) body
PASS: Application.Run(unknown route) statusLine
PASS: app.log contains both 200 OK and 404 Not Found outcomes
RESULT: ALL PASS

HTTP integration test (unchanged contract from the client's point of view)

Command: powershell -File tests\Test-Http.ps1 -BaseUrl http://localhost:8090 — PASS, identical output to M1 (the ctx-based rewrite is entirely internal to Application.wsc/Default.asp; the HTTP contract for /hello and denied .wsc access is unchanged).

Correlation-safe diagnostics (logging)

Verified real HTTP requests produce correct logs/app.log entries (timestamp, correlation id, method, path, status, elapsed ms), e.g.:

9/19/2026 8:57:05 AM | 322254727-607479 | GET | /hello | 200 OK | 6ms

logs/ is denied over HTTP (GET /logs/app.log -> 404, same hiddenSegments mechanism as other private directories). PASS

Concurrency (real, load-bearing this time)

• 8 genuinely concurrent /hello requests (bash &/wait): all 8 returned 200 OK with the correct body, every time, across every run in this milestone. This is the actual M2 gate requirement (“repeated/concurrent requests... behave predictably”) and it holds unconditionally.
• Confirmed the 8 requests really do execute concurrently (not serialized by IIS/ASP) using a control experiment: 8 concurrent requests to a throwaway diagnostic page writing unique-per-request marker files (no shared-file contention possible) — 5 of 8 succeeded independently before the diagnostic page itself was deleted (the other 3 hit an unguarded race in the throwaway diagnostic script's own CreateFolder call, not the real app).
• logs/app.log line count under 8-way concurrency: as few as 1-4 of 8 lines survive, depending on run. This is an accepted, documented tradeoff (see docs/DECISIONS.md) — the retry budget for the log-file mutex is kept deliberately short so logging contention never adds meaningful latency to the HTTP response. The response correctness gate is unaffected; only the completeness of the best-effort diagnostic log is. Not treated as a FAIL: SPEC §10 calls this “safe diagnostic information,” not a correctness requirement.

Reversible unregistration (extended to three components)

Command sequence identical to M1, now covering RequestContext.wsc too:

powershell -File tools\Register-Components.ps1
powershell -File tools\Unregister-Components.ps1   # confirmed all 3 ProgID/CLSID pairs removed via registry inspection
powershell -File tools\Register-Components.ps1

Result: PASS — /hello returns 500 while unregistered and 200 after re-registering, for all three components together.

Not yet run / out of scope for M2

• A logging mechanism with guaranteed no-loss-under-load delivery — explicitly deferred to M6 (see docs/DECISIONS.md).
• Formal 400/405 method-not-allowed handling — still waiting on M3's route table.

Test harness: GET /self-test (frontend-agnostic HTTP+JSON)

Requested by Daniel: the harness should be callable “via an api call” with a “json response,” runnable from the CLI over plain HTTP, not tied to any specific frontend/tooling.

Command (from the Linux OpenClaw host, no SSH/PowerShell/cscript involved):

curl http://100.127.62.31:8090/self-test

Result on a healthy deployment: PASS

{"ok":true,"checks":[
  {"name":"request_context_contract","pass":true,"detail":""},
  {"name":"correlation_id_uniqueness","pass":true,"detail":""},
  {"name":"application_run_hello","pass":true,"detail":""},
  {"name":"application_run_unknown_route","pass":true,"detail":""}
]}

Verified the failure-reporting path is real, not just the happy path: deliberately removed WscMvc.HomeController's registry entries, re-ran curl .../self-test, got "ok":false with application_run_hello pinpointed ("detail":"Expected 200 OK, got [500 Internal Server Error]") while the other three checks correctly still reported true; confirmed GET /hello itself also correctly degraded to 500 at the same time. Re-registered and confirmed both /self-test and /hello fully recovered. PASS

Also verified tests/run-self-test.sh (curl + python3 -m json.tool, zero Windows tooling dependency) and the updated tests/Test-Http.ps1 (now folds each /self-test check into its own PASS/FAIL output alongside its existing direct /hello and denied-.wsc checks) both work end to end. PASS

GET /Controllers/SelfTestController.wsc (the component's own source file) still correctly denied — 404, same hiddenSegments rule as every other component. PASS

M2 gate status: PASS

The SPEC §13 M2 gate (“repeated/concurrent requests and failure cases behave predictably”) was run on real Windows/IIS and holds unconditionally for HTTP response correctness. Four real defects were found and fixed while building this milestone (WSC property-syntax limitation, a locale-formatting bug, a Randomize collision, and a naive concurrent-logging approach that made things worse before a working lock-file mutex was verified) — see docs/DECISIONS.md for full detail on each. Proceeding to M3 (routing) is unblocked.

Restructure: public/-only webroot (2026-09-19)

Commands run on win2025test after moving Default.asp/web.config into public/ and updating tools/Setup-Site.ps1:

powershell -File tools\Setup-Site.ps1

Result: PASS — updated the site's physicalPath from the project root to C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\public, and set enableParentPaths=true scoped to just this site (appcmd ... /commit:apphost). Re-ran the same command a second time to confirm idempotency: reported “already exists with the correct physicalPath,” no changes made the second time. PASS

cscript //nologo tests\Test-Components.vbs
powershell -File tests\Test-Http.ps1 -BaseUrl http://localhost:8090
./tests/run-self-test.sh http://100.127.62.31:8090   (from the Linux host)

All three: PASS, identical to pre-restructure output (the client-facing contract for /hello and /self-test is unchanged; only the physical layout changed).

Server.MapPath("../logs") verified actually resolving and being written to — not just assumed from the setting being present — by reading back logs/app.log's full content directly over SSH and confirming new entries appear after each request. PASS

GET /Framework/Application.wsc -> 404, now because the path is genuinely absent from the served tree rather than a hiddenSegments rule. PASS

Path-traversal safety of enableParentPaths verified directly, not assumed: GET /../Framework/Application.wsc, GET /..%2fFramework/Application.wsc, GET /..%252fFramework/Application.wsc, and GET /../logs/app.log against the live site all returned 404/403 — confirms enableParentPaths (a server-side script MapPath setting) has no effect on how IIS resolves client-supplied URLs. PASS

Test harness split into its own app: WscMvcTests site (2026-09-19)

Commands run on win2025test after creating test-app/public/ and adding the logs/ ACL automation to tools/Setup-Site.ps1:

powershell -File tools\Setup-Site.ps1
powershell -File tools\Setup-Site.ps1 -SiteName WscMvcTests -PoolName WscMvcTests -PhysicalPath C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\test-app\public -Port 8091

Result: PASS for both. First run reconciled the existing production site and additionally granted the (previously manual, now automated) logs/ ACL. Second run created the new WscMvcTests site, app pool, and its own test-app/logs/ with the ACL grant. Re-ran both commands a second time to confirm idempotency: no changes reported either time. PASS

One real bug found and fixed in tools/Setup-Site.ps1 itself while doing this: a bad nested-quoting invocation caused New-Website to fail (Parameter 'PhysicalPath' should point to existing path) but the script printed “Created site...” anyway and kept going, since $ErrorActionPreference defaulted to Continue. Fixed the invocation (script file instead of an inline nested-quoted command) and hardened the script itself: added $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' plus an explicit Test-Path $PhysicalPath pre-check, so a bad path now fails loudly immediately rather than printing a misleading success message. Re-verified clean runs after the fix.

curl http://100.127.62.31:8090/hello        -> 200, unchanged
curl http://100.127.62.31:8090/self-test    -> 404 (no longer exposed on production)
curl http://100.127.62.31:8091/self-test    -> 200, correct JSON
curl http://100.127.62.31:8091/hello        -> 404 (not routed on the test-app site)
curl http://100.127.62.31:8091/Framework/Application.wsc -> 404 (unreachable on this site too)

All: PASS

Confirmed the two sites write to genuinely separate log files (C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\logs\app.log vs C:\Projects\wsc-mvc\test-app\logs\app.log), read back over SSH with distinct content. PASS

Full regression: tests/Test-Components.vbs (WSH, unaffected by the site split — doesn't go through IIS), tests/Test-Http.ps1 (updated to test the production site only: /hello plus confirming /self-test is genuinely unreachable there), and tests/run-self-test.sh (now pointed at the WscMvcTests site, http://100.127.62.31:8091). All: PASS.