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IIS 7.0 Application Pools
Application pools, URLs or groups of URLs served by one set of worker processes, have many benefits. They set boundaries that contain applications an prevent them from affecting applications outside of the pool. So if one application fails it won't affect other applications in other pools. They also help with security by restricting an applications access to resources in another pool. Additionally, application pools can be used to improve a sites overall performance if resource intensive applications are contained so they don't affect other applications.
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IIS 7.0 HTTP Request Processing
Here's a simplified diagram outlining the steps IIS takes to process HTTP requests.
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IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page
Here's a look at the options available from the IIS 7.0 Defaults Dialog page
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IIS 7.0 Configuration Store Hierarchy
Here's a hierarchical view of the IIS 7.0 Configuration Store:
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Protection from SQL Injection
I just finished watching a short video on YouTube of a 13-year-old kid showing people how to hack into a retail Web site. It only took him a couple of minutes and one simple technique to gain access to their customers’ personal information—including credit card numbers. I guess you can never tell whether or not a YouTube video is staged or rigged to make it appear to be more than it actually is; however, the method he demonstrated, while simple, is effective and can be used to exploit security holes in Web sites left open by sloppy programming.