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For all those IIS6 or other http.sys users out there, you might have noticed the HTTPERR logs. If you haven’t it’s over in %SystemRoot%\system32\LogFiles\HTTPERR\httperr*.log. It’s a log of anything that http.sys does with connections...

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.

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. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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".

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

Jon Udell looks a bit into credential management on Windows and gets a bit confused at what he finds. The problem is that there are domain/computer credentials and “Internet” credentials and they overlap a little bit. Domain/computer credentials...

This is a collaborative Weblog from the Web Transports Team in Windows Networking. As a team we work on the http stacks in Windows; http.sys the kernel part of the IIS 6.0 Web Server (part of Windows Server 2003) and its own developer API , wininet.dll...

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...

Don Box is playing with HTTP.SYS via the new Whidbey managed framework on Windows XP SP2. If you are really sharp looking at the service dependencies, you will find our first user on XP SP2 is UPnP. Don does mention the problem about coexistence of IIS5...

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.

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...

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