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Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:40 AM

Http.sys makes the news (not in a good way)

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

Posted by WebTransports | 6 Comments

Filed under: Kernel Http

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 5:49 PM

What can cause Wininet to return ERROR_INTERNET_CANNOT_CONNECT?

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.

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Filed under: WinInet

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:05 PM

IE7 comming soon to Windows XP SP2

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

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Filed under: WinInet

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 12:41 PM

Firefox and Mozilla to disable IDN till next version

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".