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HTTP Connection Management

Posted Friday, May 08, 2009 9:29 AM by AriPernick
HTTP is a request/response protocol. You request some resource like the HTML of a webpage and the response comes back with the HTML attached.  As each request is sent on a connection, the complete response must be read from the connection before Read More...
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Ask Perf explains how winInet is used

Posted Tuesday, August 21, 2007 10:37 AM by wndpteam
Ask Perf, the blog of the Enterprise Platforms Windows Server Performance Team, is spending some time explaining a bit of how WinInet/WinHTTP and their surrounding components work with each other. Go check it out ! -- Ari Read More...
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Content-Encoding != Content-Type

Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 8:00 AM by wndpteam
RFC 2616 for HTTP 1.1 specifies how web servers must indicate encoding transformations using the Content-Encoding header. Although on the surface, Content-Encoding (e.g., gzip, deflate, compress) and Content-Type (e.g., x-application/x-gzip) sound similar, Read More...
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WinINet and WinHTTP IPv6 Support in Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) scripts enabled in Windows Vista

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:06 PM by wndpteam
Hi, my name is Jonathan Silvera and I am the WinINet and WinHTTP Program Manager. Today I would like to talk to you about changes we have made to add IPv6 support in the WinINet and WinHTTP WPAD helper functions. The explosion of the Internet in the late Read More...
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Extensions to the Navigator Proxy Auto-Config File Format specification to support IPv6 v0.9

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 6:45 PM by wndpteam
The following functions are extensions to the Navigator Proxy Auto-Config File Format specification to enable WPAD scripts to handle IPv6 capable networks: Predefined Functions and Environment for the JavaScript Function FindProxyforURLEx: Hostname based Read More...
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Wanted: Developer feedback for our "Next Generation" client HTTP stack

Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 12:48 PM by wndpteam
As we begin the planning phase for our "Next Generation" client HTTP stack , we would love to hear from developers using our existing APIs (WinINet and WinHTTP). Please help us understand what your experience has been so far and what you would like to Read More...
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WNDP Connect Site gets an upgrade!

Posted Tuesday, June 06, 2006 9:32 AM by wndpteam
Last year we setup a small site on connect.microsoft.com in order to let our blog readers, developers and users file bugs, make suggestions and get some conntent like whitepapers and samples early. The downside to the site was that you couldn't easily Read More...
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What's next on the client HTTP stack front

Posted Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:00 PM by wndpteam
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1940567,00.asp Hachamovitch acknowledged Microsoft already is building the next two versions of IE. He declined to offer guidelines on delivery schedules or feature sets, other than to say one of the two Read More...
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