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ASP.NET Menu Control getting padded with white space on IE8

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET , VS 2008 , IE 8 , CSS 2.0   Recently I was helping this developer on a particularly interesting issue. He had an asp.net web application that had been in productions for years and worked perfectly. Now they were planning...

Advanced digest authentication works from Internet Explorer however we receive multiple authentication prompts on each GET request from fire fox

Sometime back I was working on a particular issue which was particularly interesting . They had a website that was configured to use Advanced Digest authentication from IIS , however the peculiar behaviour was that while using fire fox they received multiple...

Enforcing SSL 3.0 and removing weak encryption vulnerability over SSL ( IIS 6.0 and ISA )

Running a Custom Penetration test  on IIS 6.0 server having SSL enabled may show vulnerability reports as a weak encryption on IIS . ISA server 2000 acts as  proxy in front of the IIS server and also has certificate installed on it. The following...

Process and Thread Identity in ASP.NET – A Practical Approach

The following scenarios establish the way the process identity and the thread identity are defined while building asp.net websites and publishing using the IIS webserver. IIS supports the following authentication types : · Anonymous – In this...

Webdav on IIS 6.0 Troubleshooting

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) extends the HTTP/1.1 protocol to allow clients to publish, lock, and manage resources on the Web. Integrated into IIS, WebDAV allows clients to do the following: • Manipulate resources in a WebDAV...

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