Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

re: Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

Akien MacIain — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:59:00 GMT

This might be more of a support question, but here goes... Running ZoneAlarm firewall, couldn't get either IIS or Apache to work. Then used the apache directive which says basically Use Accept() instead of AcceptEx()... Is there a way to do that in IIS (I'm using IIS 5.0)

Thanx. akienm@weirdness.org

re: AcceptEx(), TransmitPackets(), Asynchronous socket calls

Anthony — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 03:24:00 GMT

These APIs aren't exposed directly from the Sockets class. If you call BeginAccept/EndAccept on v2.0 of the framework, then it will be using AcceptEx under the covers. I believe a new method for sending a file over a socket has been added in v2.0 as well (which underneath will use TransmitFile). I don't believe there are plans for TransmitPackets though.

re: Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

John — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:51:00 GMT

Why can't Microsoft continue to support Winhttp.dll on older releases of the OS? Why are new features always on the latest (and far future) versions of the OS? Can't you decouple these features more from the core OS?

P.S. I'm not a member of the Microsoft hater club, just a developer who can't stand having to upgrade OS's just to take advantage of the latest library advances.

AcceptEx(), TransmitPackets(), Asynchronous socket calls

Ricky Datta — Sat, 03 Apr 2004 01:00:00 GMT

AcceptEx(), TransmitPackets(), Asynchronous socket calls - are these warpped in 2.0 version of the FX ?

Thanks
Ricky

re: Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

Ari Pernick — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:53:00 GMT

Don Box, who is much more authoritative about Indigo then I, has a blog entry sorta on this topic: http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/dbox/default.aspx?month=2003-11
in the entry title'd 'Is Longhorn "Managed"?'

re: Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

Ari Pernick — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:44:00 GMT

Thanks for the question!
IIS 6 via http.sys and previous versions of IIS support pipelining. Client side, wininet won't support pipelining in the forseeable future and winhttp will support pipelining in the next major OS release (Longhorn). From what I understand Indigo uses whidbey version of the net classes. I understand that the net classes on the server side use http.sys and the client side has it's own sockets based http stack that supports pipelining. I'll try to get a bigger picture of what http stacks are available and what the plus and minuses of each them are in a future post.

RE: Welcome to Window's Web Transports Blog

dada@cam.org (Stephane Lajoie) — Wed, 25 Feb 2004 00:25:00 GMT

If you're looking for something to post about, I'm curious about something:

Do you guys plan to support HTTP pipelining eventually? In the server? In the client? I notice that the new Indigo messaging system has a nice pipelined architecture. Is the http Indigo transport implemented using http.sys/wininet.dll, and if so, does that mean Indigo will not be pipelined when using http?