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IIS 7 C++ Module API Sample: Controlling http.sys caching

Posted Nov 20 2007, 11:29 AM Attachment: cacheit.zip

IIS 7 C++ Module API Sample: Controlling http.sys caching Introduction In my previous post we saw that http.sys caching can be very useful for high traffic (gigabits/sec) sites. In this post we create a sample module that allows configuring which URLs... Read More... 1 Comments

Fun with http.sys Caching

Posted Nov 01 2007, 09:40 AM Attachment: experiment.zip

Introduction There are many caches available to web applications. Today I will play with the http.sys URI cache. It is a simple, fast, kernel-mode cache. How it Works First IIS must decide if the response can be stored in the http.sys' cache (devs: See... Read More... 5 Comments

FastCGI: Debugging "The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly"

Posted Oct 16 2007, 08:37 AM

FastCGI: Debugging "The FastCGI process exited unexpectedly" Update 17-Oct: Added .lines, fixed some spelling mistakes, added pageheap Here is the sequence of events for two back-to-back FastCGI requests to a freshly started worker process: Request 1... Read More... 2 Comments

FastCGI Rapid Failure Protection

Posted Oct 12 2007, 10:56 AM

FastCGI Rapid Failure Protection There are a lot of similarities between FastCGI's Rapid Failure Protection feature and w3svc/WAS', read here for more information. FastCGIs performance (vs CGI) is derived from amortizing process creation and startup costs... Read More... 0 Comments

IIS 7 C++ Module API Sample: Changing Handlers

Posted Oct 12 2007, 09:14 AM Attachment: rubynator.zip

IIS 7 C++ Module API Sample: Changing Handlers Introduction Today's modules looks at how you can programmatically change handlers. RQ_EXECUTE_REQUEST_HANDLER is by far the most common notification used in the IIS 7 pipline. This makes sense because it... Read More... 0 Comments

IIS 7 C++ Module API Sample: Consuming Trace Events

Posted Oct 10 2007, 01:52 PM Attachment: trace2outputdebugstring.zip

Introduction The attached sample IIS 7 module converts all tracing events into OutputDebugString calls. This is not something you'd want to do on a production box, because OutputDebugString can slow machines substantially. It is however very useful when... Read More... 0 Comments

Installing PHP 5.2.4 on Windows Server 2008 RC0 in Pictures

Posted Oct 04 2007, 06:40 PM

Windows Server 2008 RC0 is now available for beta testing . Here are some screenshots of setting up PHP 5.2.4: Update: 11-Oct: changed image layout, tweaked text Open Server Manager, Install IIS, including CGI (which include FastCGI) Download and extract... Read More... 0 Comments

IIS 7 Talks: Slides

Posted May 29 2007, 06:00 AM Attachment: slides.zip

Will and I had the pleasure of presenting IIS 7 to audiences in 6 countries in the last 2 weeks. Sorry to people who found out about the presentations too late to attend. I've attached a copy of the slides we used. You may also want to see the shared... Read More... 1 Comments

IIS 7 Talks: Zagreb, Athens, Brussels and Belgrade

Posted May 10 2007, 05:53 AM

As previously mentioned, in the next two weeks, Will and I will be doing a bunch of IIS 7 day-long talks. (Brett and Isaac will visit other countries, see here for the full list) Final locations and dates: 14 May: Reykjavik 16 May: Zagreb 18 May: Athens... Read More... 5 Comments

IIS 7 Talks: Reykjavik and London

Posted May 06 2007, 04:53 AM

Will and I will be presenting one day talks, aimed at IT professionals, about IIS 7. Schedule: 14 May: Reykjavik ( details and registration ) 23 May: London ( details and registration ) We're still finalizing details, but it looks like we'll also be talking... Read More... 1 Comments

FastCGI TP2 - Unofficial Update 70419

Posted Apr 19 2007, 09:56 AM Attachment: FastCGI-TP2-Update-70419.zip

FastCGI tech preview 2 went out a long time ago. Since then there has been tons of excellent feedback in the FastCGI forums on http://forums.iis.net . Thank you! Unfortunately it's going to be a while before there's another official tech preview / beta... Read More... 5 Comments

IIS 7 Hello World Module Walkthrough

Posted Feb 26 2007, 11:53 PM Attachment: hello_world.zip

The other day I found out that the Vista SDK includes a compiler. I was very excited to find this out, cause now creating a "Hello World" IIS 7 C++ module only requires one huge install (and two little ones). Build: Install the Vista SDK Unzip attached... Read More... 0 Comments

Fake FastCGI Web Server

Posted Feb 04 2007, 01:18 PM Attachment: fake.zip

When developing a new FastCGI library, the web server can get in the way. The attached program wraps a FastCGI executable in a minimal FastCGI environment. It should be enough to get "hello world" working. It only uses named pipes. It doesn't exercise... Read More... 1 Comments

IIS 7 FastCGI Module

Posted Oct 31 2006, 10:47 AM

The IIS FastCGI preview is ready! I spent the last month developing the IIS 7 FastCGI module. Wade has adapted the module to work as an ISAPI on IIS 6 (and unofficially on IIS 5). Marchel and Mukhtar (and recently Cip) have been testing until late in... Read More... 3 Comments