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...

Larry Osterman of the WMC Team has a three part blog series about what he needed to allow http.sys to open ports and get through the Windows XP SP2 firewall. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3