22 November 2004
Forcing reuse of connections when doing Windows Authentication
When doing authentication, HttpWebRequest manages connections differently, depending on the authentication mode being used. If it uses Windows Integrated Authentication, it will close the connection after every request completes. The reasons for this Read More...
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22 November 2004
Printers are watching you!
Someone sent me a link which talks about how printers are embedding tracking information in pages that they print. Spooky! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1093&e=4&u=/pcworld/20041122/tc_pcworld/118664 Read More...
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07 October 2004
Async Programming Model - Reloaded
This topic is about the asynchronous programming model, and how it is used when doing Networking. Introduction to Asynchronous Programming The DotNetFramework supports an asynchronous programming model that is uniform across all classes & features Read More...
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12 July 2004
HttpWebRequest and PreAuthentication
The topic of this post is PreAuthentication. HTTP Webservers support multiple authentication options. On Windows, IIS supports Basic, NTLM, Digest, Negotiate (a.k.a Integrated Windows Authentication). Of these, Basic & Kerberos support PreAuthentication. Read More...
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30 March 2004
Downloading content from the web using different encodings
The other day, somebody asked me: How do I download a webpage, or other content from a webserver, where the content is stored using a specific encoding ? They want to do this using for eg: System.Net.HttpWebRequest Why is this necessary ? Well, for starters, Read More...
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01 February 2004
A tale of threads
Today's lesson is about thread interaction between Asp.Net and the HttpWebRequest object of the System.Net namespace. The CLR provides a threadpool. This facility provides threads for normal work ( worker threads ), I/O work ( I/O threads) and Timer Threads. Read More...
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21 January 2004
HttpWebRequest and Connections
The .NET Framework has a HttpWebRequest object in the System.Net namespace. This object allows you to talk to HTTP Servers. Usually, people forget that the underlying connection created by the request is not freed up,unless you call Close() on the response. Read More...
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20 January 2004
Welcome
Welcome to my blog! This blog is a place for raves and rants about everything in general, and networking in particular. Watch this space for cool tips and tricks, code samples and other random stuff. Read More...
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