David Wang

I have been getting a bunch of private requests from many people asking me variations of the following questions: "I want to use Sharepoint, but I want user authentication to be done with CustomAuth [or their own Wildcard Application Mapping ISAPI...

I found myself writing a very long response to a recent comment to this blog entry , so I decided to make it into a blog entry and link the two. Question: Thanks for the info. Sorry i was not clear. I am recycling the memory based upon the virtual...

Question: How can one use GetHeader api of PHTTP_FILTER_PREPROC_HEADERS to retrieve fields, such as "url" and others, in unicode? I could not find any documentation on this topic. Thanks a lot, Answer: It is not possible to retrieve a value...

I finally got around to setting up and re-arranging my office after the completion of the Office Move. Like Wade, I spend the extra time and effort to disassemble all wires of my computers prior to moving and reassemble them myself after the move. My...

Question: Using IIS the HTTP_ACCEPT header server variable received from the client appears to have a hard coded limit of 259 characters. This is causing problems when using a Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone which has a longer string than 259 characters...

Question: Hi, Is it possible to write an ISAPI filter equivalent (IHttpModule imlementation?) using managed code? I want my filter to get invoked for non .NET applications a well. thanks Answer: Unfortunately, you cannot [yet] write an...

Question: Hi, I would like IIS to log application pool recycle events. I followed this article http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/87892589-4eda-4003-b4ac-3879eac4bf48.mspx restarted IIS and even rebooted...

Ok, this is something non-techie and more "off-topic" than usual, but hey, I think it is still "in-character" when it comes to me... I'm in a wacky, experimental mood at the moment (well, more than usual), so I'll give this a try. If it doesn't work out...

After years of using plain TiVo Series 2 (and being pretty satisfied with it), I decided to try out their next logical procession - the TiVo Desktop 2.2. My primary motivation is to free up space on the TiVo box to allow me to record shows through a weekend...

I was randomly browsing blogs on blogs.msdn.com following the recent Community Server upgrade, and I happened upon the newly started blog of a friend of mine on the Sparkle (aka "Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer" or EID) team. I thought "cool...

Ok... I still have not gotten around to writing that uber blog entry/guide on the ins and outs of 64bit IIS6 and WOW64... so I wager I should take little bites here and there as motivation. Writing big long technical articles that try to answer lots...

Question: This was posted earlier in microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general; it was suggested I ask these questions here... In trying to improve the throughput of a classic ASP app I wrote a few years ago, I added monitoring to the application...

Question: I've got a box running fine these days, but now I want to experiment a bit. I have a long-running .asp page and I want to change the application pool settings for it. But when I go to the IIS console, there is no entry in the tree for Applicaiton...

Last month, after more than a half year of wranging with the Windows OOB process , we finally released the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit, "full-monte" version . At that time, we promised to release the "a la carte" MSIs for each constituent of the IIS Diagnostics...

Question: We are running IIS 5.0 on Win XP Pro, with dual core processors and 1 GByte of memory. Many of the HTML pages being served reference lots of small jpgs (between 20 and 50). We have had our site up for a few months, with no problems. Recently...

Since the last time I blogged about the blogs.msdn.com upgrade , a lot of things have improved and bug fixes made... to the point that I am now very happy with the upgrade. I have gotten over the growing pains and like the new set of features very much...

I recently encountered this question from multiple users simultaneously, and while the behavior looks bizarre, the answer is equally peculiar... so I thought it nice to share this little gem... Question: Hi All, I have an isapi filter that works...

For the next several days (through the weekend), the entire IIS team has been evicted from our offices as movers shuffle many of us around in preparation for that big unified push to ship IIS7. So, we are all looking at a 4+ day weekend... In some...

Question: Is there way to script a check on the success or failure of the Filter, ie a vbscript object that contains the state of loaded DLL's? One can get the list of filters installed from the metabase, but how would one get the state? The metabase...

Lately, I have been a bit more focused on doing my day job of working on IIS7... Yeah yeah, I got my office back in order after the move, so I wager I should put the time to some good use. Actually, I just haven't encountered a blog topic during this...

Question: Hello All, My client has a IIS 6.0 with some static pages configured in it. My application is a middleware that sits in between the browser client and the IIS 6.0 Web server. Now, my problem is that IIS 6.0 is always sending Responses...