I got this question about response packet size control... Question: Running a web app - native .NET. 2003 for server. Reports come out as garhugic (66K) packets in testing. Is there a way to control max packet size from within .NET at the program...

Lately, IIS7 has taken a disproportionate amount of my attention, so now that the milestone has been reached, I finally have a chance to unwind my mind. My thoughts are going to be a bit random for a while (at least to me it seems so). But, do not be...

Ok, it is official now. Milestone complete for IIS7. Time for us to celebrate and break out the bubbly... I should have checked one last time before this post . Back at TechEd 2005 in Orlando, some of you may have noticed an older build of IIS7 running...

A large chunk of my past seven days has been spent on doing all I can to ensure that IIS7 reaches its first major milestone enroute to shipping in Longhorn Server (or whatever it will be called - Vista Server? Nah. ;-) ). Several of us easily put in...

One of the popular comparisons of Virtual Machine technologies is Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server (the other being Virtual Server vs. VMWare GSX/ESX). I decided to tackle the Virtual PC vs. Virtual Server comparison with a little brain dump. This is...

The following url gives some sage advice to anyone thinking of asking a question in a public forum... Go ahead, read it. It's a KB article on Microsoft.com. It's found on the Internet. It must be true! Well, in this case, I think that this link is...

Ok, lately I have been very busy with IIS7 related milestones, so I am a little drained mentally. Thus, I will talk about a "simpler" topic that should still be useful useful... just not as much prep work for me... Virtual Server. :-) This will be...

Almost two weeks ago, I contemplated about the possibility of making a "technical" post daily... because I was just starting on my blog and really needed to find a good rhythm. Well, now I have my conclusion (more on that later). I knew that if I did...

Users frequently want to use URLScan's DenyUrlSequences feature to scan the incoming URL, including querystring, and reject based on various arbitrary criteria, such as potential SQL injection characters, banned characters for directories/files, etc....

This is actually a question about the HTTP Server in Windows CE , which actually has nothing to do with IIS because it is not even the same code base. So, the server's behavior can be different from IIS (and in this case, I would say that it is very different...

One of the most common questions asked about IIS on the newsgroups as well as Microsoft Product Support is "why am I getting 401 Access Denied"? There are many, many possible causes and variations, but from the IIS perspective, the top-level, logical...

A powerful but often under-utilized and misunderstood feature of IIS is its programmatic configuration APIs. On the one hand, all IIS administrative APIs allow programmatic, automated, and unattend configuration of IIS. On the other hand, it can be hard...

One of the most fundamental security changes in IIS6 appends \\?\ to all filesystem access by IIS. This is supposed to be fairly transparent, but... Question: Dear comrades: I have a cgi executable program that has worked just fine under W2000...

People frequently ask about the "Referer Authentication" custom protocol that Apache offers with a custom module. Yes, it is doable on IIS as well -- if you have the custom module. Question: Hi there. Since you a very good in IIS, i need your...

Variations of this question are asked of IIS 6 all the time. However, the answer is no different than for any other version of IIS other than the fact that IIS 6 gives you a distinct error code to troubleshoot. What is not clear to me is why users think...

I found this interesting question on the newsgroup, and came up with a fast code example to illustrate how much one can do with simple batch scripting and existing IIS commandline tools. Question: I know in IIS6 you can do a Search and Replace quite...

Ok, I am trying very hard to crank out at least one blog entry every day this work week. Yes, I have a little pipeline of blog entry topics stashed away on this Community Server right now, and as the questions come to me, I add them to the list, and...

Motivation One of the bigger buzz-word features of IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003 is the "HTTP.SYS Kernel Mode Response Cache". When you do a search against "HTTP.SYS Kernel Response Cache IIS 6", you will inevitably find a large body of literature...

The following question concerning SSO and ISAPI was posted in the ISAPI-DEV newsgroup. This sort of question for SSO happens all the time, but the answer is pretty much the same - use Kerberos (either within Windows or some other Kerberos system), or...

HOWTO Use Relative Links to Develop Web Applications on Windows Professional SKU and Publish as Websites on Server SKU...

When Integrated Authentication is enabled, users frequently wonder why they are still prompted for username/password. After all, isn't Integrated Authentication supposed to get rid of that? Thus, the following question has come up several times when...

There was a recent question about how to reject requests (based on the HTTP Referer header in this case) in SF_NOTIFY_PREPROC_HEADERS. Question: Hello everyone, I'm trying to solve a problem of referer spam: People will fake requests to the web...