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July 2005 - Posts

Kernel Mode SSL in HTTPAPI 2.0

Posted Friday, July 29, 2005 3:50 PM by wndpteam
Win2k3 SP1 introduced K ernel mode SSL which had great perf benefits over Win2k3 but the implementation was limited and required a restart of HTTP.sys to change the server certificate configuration. Hence it was not turned on by default. In Vista Beta Read More...
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Say Hello to HTTP API Version 2.0

Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 8:35 PM by wndpteam
With Longhorn Vista Beta 1 comes a new API for http.sys, HTTP API Version 2.0 , which includes boatload of new features: Logging , Authentication , Bandwidth management , Timeouts , Connection Limits , Caching and more. -- Ari Pernick (arip) Read More...
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Programatically setting Wininet/Internet Explorer's Proxy settings

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 9:41 AM by wndpteam
We got a question in the comments: I wonder how I can set the proxy server for WinInet programmatically? Actually I want to be able to flip flop the proxy setting (for IE) programmatically. Thanks Victor There is two parts to doing this. Pass NULL as Read More...
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MSDN Magazine on Winsock/System.Net

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 7:29 PM by wndpteam
MSDN Magazine for August 2005 has an article about System.Net.Sockets and WinSock by Daryn Kiely: Sockets are the transport mechanism most frequently used in high-performance server applications. Fortunately, the Win32 ® Windows ® Sockets library (Winsock) Read More...
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Cookie Handling, a Brief Primer

Posted Tuesday, July 19, 2005 2:06 PM by wndpteam
Recently WSJ's Walter S. Mossberg spent a bit of time railing against tracking cookies as meeting his definition of spyware. He points out the problem that some of these cookies are useful for remembering site preferences and site login information, but Read More...
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David Wang discusses http.sys's kernel response cache.

Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 1:43 PM by wndpteam
Check out David Wang's recent post about http.sys's response cache. He describes the configurable registry keys and how the scavanger works. Read More...
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