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  • Quo Vadis AccessFlags?

    When IIS is configured as an Application Server it executes scripts like ASP and ASP.NET, CGI programs and other dynamic content. But in other scenarios IIS is supposed to only allow the download of html files and other static content like html pages, music or video files. With the accessFlags setting in IIS 6.0 administrators were able to lock down the IIS execution permissions to prevent dynamic content from executing.

  • Achtung! IIS7 Preconditions

     <add name="AXD-ISAPI-2.0" path="*.axd" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" modules="IsapiModule" scriptProcessor="%windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv2.0,bitness32" responseBufferLimit="0" />