David Wang
David Wang on IIS, ISAPI, Exchange, Virtual Server, and whatever else I fancy...
HTTP POST Fails for Anonymous Authentication
Question: I have ASP that receives a POST, displays the parameters and performs additional work....
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/01/2005
Child URL Execution and SSI #exec
Question: My web server was recently upgraded from Win2K to Win2003 and I've noticed a change in the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/30/2005
Can I Install an ISAPI Filter as an ISAPI Extension or Wildcard Application Mapping?
Question: My ISAPI filter written in MFC using Visual Studio .NET 2003, to replace character (I am...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/29/2005
Podcasting can be...
Fun, unless one is constantly tripping over one's words/phrases. I apologize. Most of the time when...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/23/2005
Hacking .Net Framework onto WINPE ?
Question: Re:...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/18/2005
Thoughts on Connection_Abandoned_By_AppPool
So, lately I have been getting a variety of questions about non-IIS but related issues. This is a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/16/2005
ISAPI Filter and the N+1 Architecture?
Question: Hi David, I am developing an ISAPI Filter to prove the N+1 Architecture.There will be few...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/10/2005
HOWTO: Run as normal user (non-admin) on Windows
Sometimes, I wonder and worry about the vast majority of Windows users that run with administrative...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/10/2005
HOWTO: Insert Multiple Website Bindings
Hmm... I am somewhat confused by proclamations of asking for advice when things are supposedly...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/09/2005
HOWTO: Install and Run ASP.Net 2.0 Side-by-Side
Hmm, this is one of the more unusual questions that I have received lately... Question: how do you...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/08/2005
Domain Parking with IIS, Summary
I got this comment from my "URL Redirection Index" blog entry which I have not totally fleshed out...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/28/2005
WebLogic Filter is not working on IIS6
Question: Hi, I've been searching high and low for a couple of weeks but can't find anything that...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/22/2005
Rewriting Bookmarks for Atlas?
I have not checked out the AJAX craze surrounding Atlas, so I am not certain what is the goal here....
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/22/2005
IIS7. Management API
Asking about what will be available in an unreleased product like IIS 7.0 is pretty risky. Even at...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/20/2005
HOWTO: Allow file downloads (including .exe) on IIS 6.0, Part 2
Some users have reported that IIS6 still refuses to allow an EXE file to download even after...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/17/2005
Why Wildcard application mapping is not catching 404s
I recently did a brain-dump about IIS6 Request Processing and detailed how Wildcard application...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/17/2005
Why Wildcard application mapping can disable Default Document resolution
Users frequently configure ISAPIs like ASPNET_ISAPI.DLL as a wildcard application mapping on IIS6 to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/15/2005
HOWTO: IIS 6 Request Processing Basics, Part 1
Alright, I finally got motivated enough by some questions and circumstances to do this brain-dump of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/15/2005
HTTP.SYS rejection of request lines not terminated by CRLF (Redux)
Ok... this is the second day in a row now where I am answering a blog comment where I think the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/13/2005
Kernel Caching in IIS 6 (Redux)
Hmm, I got the following question today, and since I had a blog entry that exactly answered the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/12/2005
How does JSP work on IIS?
The following question is often asked - why IIS does not support using JSP directly? Allow me to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/11/2005
Some Sample Code to illustrate XML manipulation by JScript
It seems that some folks just want free code. Question: Hi, I am not sure if it's really that on 18...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/11/2005
HOWTO: See who is logged into IIS
This is a common requested "feature" of IIS - I want to see what users are currently "Logged in" to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/09/2005
Putting on the Web Developer Hat...
The past week, I put on the classic "Web Developer" hat to do some heads down work, so blogging,...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/08/2005
HOWTO: Diagnose one cause of 503 Service Unavailable on IIS6 on 64bit Windows
Strange. I have answered this question recently on how to diagnose a common cause of "503 Service...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/06/2005
Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache, Part 2
I got some interesting comments on my prior blog post, and since I started typing out a big essay in...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/01/2005
Thoughts on IIS Security vs Apache
I got the following interesting question about IIS security and whether it was better to "protect"...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/30/2005
HOWTO: ISAPI Filter which Logs original Client IP for Load Balanced IIS Servers
Invariably, when you run IIS servers that are load-balanced or forwarded requests behind some other...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/28/2005
HOWTO: Mass Shared Hosting on Windows with IIS6
I got this recent question concerning the "limitations of ISAPI" as it pertains to mass shared...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/27/2005
Why do I Blog?
I was sifting through my list of blog posts recently (I now have over thee dozen unpublished posts...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/26/2005
HOWTO: Obtain support if DebugDiag reports ntdll.dll is responsible
Question: Hi David, Thanks for the blog / posts... I have installed the DebugDiag from MS Betas, and...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/24/2005
ISAPI Extension using Managed Assemblies results in File Not Found
I recently got a question concerning ISAPI using managed assemblies. Question: Hello First of all I...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/24/2005
HOWTO: Diagnose one cause of 503 Service Unavailable on IIS6
I recently got this question about encountering a 503 Service Unavailable error on 64bit Windows....
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/24/2005
Why do I lose ASP Session State on IIS6
A common, mysterious behavior encountered by ASP applications on IIS6 is the loss of session state....
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/19/2005
HOWTO: Use IIsWebFile to Securely Run CGI in /cgi-bin from the root directory
One of the least leveraged features of IIS is the IIsWebFile, which can work absolute wonders within...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/14/2005
IIS7. Why Global Managed Modules are Disallowed
Ok, I have been pretty busy the past 10 days with both work and life, and I have not had a chance to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/14/2005
Question about GetServerVariable QUERY_STRING
I recently got this question about the behavior of QUERY_STRING values. Unfortunately, server...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/13/2005
HOWTO: Provision ASP.Net AppDomains and IIS6 Application Pools
This is a frequent source of confusion - how ASP.Net and IIS does application isolation. The key...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/02/2005
Can ISAPI Filter remove entries from the IIS log file?
I recently got this question about how to not log certain requests to the IIS log file. Question: As...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/01/2005
HOWTO: Protect non-.NET content
This is a frequently asked question - how to implement custom authentication on IIS. I am going to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/30/2005