This blog is migrating to the WNDP blog . This one will stick around but won't be updated.

Microsoft Monitor discusses a little bit about cookies and P3P after a Mossberg Wall Street Journal Column

Check out David Wang's recent post about http.sys's response cache. He describes the configurable registry keys and how the scavanger works.

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. Network Access Protection: Khaja_MSFT (Expert): Q: oh yes = tell us more about...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. Firewall: Henry_MSFT (Expert): Q: Will Longhorn feature iptables like firewall...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. UPnP: Harish_msft (Expert): Q: "web serviices for network devices " <--- whats...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. After Ipv6 and the new stack, wireless was on people's minds: Christian_MSFT ...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. There was a massive number of questions about IPv6 and the new stack in Longhorn...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. Http, winsock and QoS are the areas closest to me organizationally so I'll start...

Today was the Longhorn Networking Chat , I've organized some of the QA and will do a series of posts on different topics that came up. See the full transcript on Channel 9. First off was some opening remarks from Jawad: Jawad_Khaki_MSFT (Expert): Longhorn...

There is an upcoming online chat with Jawad Khaki regarding Longhorn Networking features on March 22 at 11:30. Want to be first to know what is changing (and there are years worth of work here) in the networking stack? This is the place to be. Or maybe...

InformationWeek has an article about a reliability update posted to Windows Update for http.sys. The problem was that http.sys plus a recent update to a certain vendor's anti-virus software leads to a blue screen. Because of the type of failure, it took...

Glad you asked. The following winsock errors get translated into ERROR_INTERNET_CANNOT_CONNECT: WSAENETDOWN WSAECONNREFUSED WSAENETUNREACH WSAENOTCONN Learn more about these errors on the Windows Sockets Error Code page.

Bill Gates annouced IE 7 today at the RSA Conference: Building on those advancements, Gates announced Internet Explorer 7.0, designed to add new levels of security to Windows XP SP2 while maintaining the level of extensibility and compatibility that customers...

Netcraft points out the annoucement from the Mozilla development team that they are disabling IDN support until a longer term solution to this phishing vuln can be done. " it is hoped that a better fix can be developed in time for Firefox 1.1".

Chris Adams, a technical lead in IIS, has a series of webcasts about IIS and Http.sys. TechNet Webcast: HTTP.sys: Inside and Out - Level 300 TechNet Webcast: The Ins and Outs of Centralized Binary Logging in IIS 6.0 - Level 300

Aaron Skonnard has an MSDN Magazine article about running ASMX without IIS , but instead uses Http.sys through the new managed HttpListener APIs in the .NET Framework 2.0. He provides code demonstrating how to tie Http.sys directly to ASP.NET.

Jeffdav continues his blogging about the WinInet Cache with a multiple posts on index.dat .

IIS now has a team blog called IIS Hints & Tips . Thier first technical post is about how IIS and ASP.NET uses the http.sys cache .

Jeffdav's weblog has an entry on why view->source sometimes stops working and why you get forced to save some images as bmp when they really aren't. While you are waiting for the fix, the workaround we use on the Longhorn Wininet team is to lower our...

Thoose who are really looking might have found the following event in your event log: Reservation for namespace identified by URL prefix http://*:2869/ was successfully added. This is just UPNP reserving it's port and namespace in http.sys.

Well, this is meant to be a more technical blog, and I got in my mini ra-ra post yesterday, but I was happy to see Mary Jo Foley pointing to this eWeek article, "IIS Rounds the Security Corner" . I've personally been at Microsoft from five years now and...

Netcraft reports that in September three of the top 10 most reliable hosting providers during September were running Windows 2003 and IIS6, Netcetera, DataPipe and myhosting.com. Another three were running Windows 2000, including the top of the rankings...

You may have heard of a tool called Port Reporter that logs TCP and UDP activity on a Windows 2000, XP or 2003 machine. On XP and 2003 it also captures more data about the user and process that opened the port. (Data that is also available with the -o...

Peter DeBetta in a developer.com article demonstrates how to use SQL Server 2005 to create HTTP endpoints: So what is an HTTP Endpoint? You may have heard that it is SQL Server 2005's means for creating Web services, but it actually is much more...