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Fix is here
Fix is here http://www.iis.net/
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Re: Use IIS Express, SQL Server LocalDB, Visual St
In the default installation the services are configured to run
Let's learn about about some of the products I was referring to...
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Re:300Mbps for $?$?$I was consulting this article that says 4k content will shift to H.265. (Although it also claims H.264 4k video would be fine at 45 Mbit/s, so who knows).
Anyway, 100 Mbit is still less than 300 Mbit, and Internet streaming is surely able to be upgraded to new encodings more easily than cable or satellite broadcasts, for example even if only a few people have new sets that support the encoding.
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Re:1st post.
Nothing is stored in the registry anymore for IIS?!?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954864
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/820129
http://blogs.iis.net/ksingla/archive/2007/12/30/list-of-registry-keys-affecting-iis7-behavior.aspx
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Fix
You can download a fix here.
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How does M$ server require M$ browser?
If you're using a MIcrosoft web server (like Bank of China does
... did?) you really have to use the Microsoft browser for it to work properlyWhen I ran Apache HTTP Server on Windows Server 2003 inside my employer's intranet, clients running Firefox on Ubuntu had no problem accessing it. Nor have I had a problem reaching public web servers running IIS from my Ubuntu laptop. I've never used IIS in any of my own deployments, but I've been told it still runs PHP applications. So to what extent does any popular Microsoft web server technology require Internet Explorer?
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Wow, nice troll
iTunes decision to use abstraction on Windows can hardly be blamed on Windows itself; it's just pure laziness on Apples' part. There's plenty of native media & drawing APIs that iTunes just can't be bothered to implement, and the result is a slow and shitty iTunes implementation on Windows. I know no other app that installs so much shit; a custom USB driver (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/apple-rolls-back-usb-driver-in-itunes-8-for-windows/2270), various services, various other apps you never asked for, etc, etc. It's pure 100% bloat that seemingly only Apple seem to install; no other application I've ever seen piles in so much crap, and you blame Windows? The reality distortion field is strong in you.
Curious comparison with php; I never thought you could link the speed of a media player to that of a web-server technology until now. That aside though php is in fact faster on Windows apparently - http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/10/31/PHP-on-IIS.aspx
I find it ironic that Apple call Windows out on being so slow & insecure when they are in fact one of the biggest perpetrators of shoddy coding. The whole "You must use native APIs for the genuine experience" thing going on with the iPhone, while disregarding the same rules completely for their Windows apps. Utter double standards.
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Re:Use mod_rewrite
Upgrade to IIS7.0 and: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/
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Re:Microsoft's response
Well maybe they've decided to actually test the patch before releasing it?
:)I discovered today that a patch for a vulnerability in the IIS SMTP service causes the settings for the service to be reset if you're running it on Server 2008 (2003 doesn't seem to be affected, AFAIK).
Unfortunately we applied that patch (and others) last Wednesday and don't have regular automated testing of our website's ability to deliver mail to localhost, so took a while for us to notice... a quick Google lead me to this discussion where I discovered the cause.
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Re:We keep repeating the same mistakes
Streaming video needs an Apache
Per Slashdot tradition, I will pick on your analogy a bit, because I can't argue with most of the rest you wrote. We already already have the Apache for video... and it is: Apache. And IIS. And nginx, lighttpd, etc.
Move Networks and Microsoft have shown that the best way to do streaming in today's internet is via HTTP, while chunking the video into variable bit-rate segments. This allows easy caching of video fragments via CDNs or even Squid-style caching proxies at ISPs, universities, etc. Yes, you can do live streaming this way, and the Move Networks/Limelight Oprah event streamed to something like 1M viewers simultaneously.
Of course Move Networks has this patented this up the wazzu, and I imagine Microsoft has some of their implementation patented as well. But the actual chunking of video files is pretty obvious, and there's lots of prior art, so I imagine their specific patents can be avoided by an open standard.
So we don't really need an Apache for video, the distribution problem isn't hard, and we already have Apache.
What we need is the content generation toolchain, as you describe later. So we really need the Eclipse/gcc/Spring analogues for video. A free-and-open codec, file formats, and widely distributed players. As you state, the hardest of all these is the codec. I took a fair bit of maths and even some CG and DSP classes back in the day, and I can barely understand how MPEG-2 works, let alone something like H.264.
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Re:Not News!!
It's only because IIS 5 came off so badly in the study that Microsoft finally decided to do something and fix their problems. Even people who worked on it admit that IIS 5 was crap in comparison http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/05/07/iis-vs-apache.aspx When you say "Security. If you're worried about IIS security vs. Apache, you're concerns are outdated.", you're acknowledging that the concerns were valid.
It backs up my point that market share does not necessarily correlate with vulnerability. Apache had twice the market share of IIS 5, and yet was much more secure.
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Re:Fedora
Had you been given Windows Server 2008 Core to use as a web server, you would very likely have been in the same position. IIS might have been installed (no SQL or PHP support is on the Server 2008 disc), but without the ability to access some documentation, you would have been in the same state as if you were with Red Hat(look at instructions for IIS + PHP + MySQL here). Your point that "linux" does not have a unified installer strategy is just as valid with Windows. My point is that there are valid reasons for different installer strategies among distros, not just excuses.
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Re:Then Use Moonlight Instead
Are you running the current Moonlight Preview? That's required for managed code support, and hence Smooth Streaming.
This definitely works in Moonlight. If you can see it, you've got it installed correctly.
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Smooth Streaming, not WMV
Silverlight (WMV) is in a standards based format, you can check it out in Mono.
These are actually Smooth Streaming files.
http://www.iis.net/extensions/SmoothStreaming
FWIW, Silverlight 3 supports WMV, MPEG-4 (with H.264), Smooth Streaming, and supports managed code decoders and parsers to add additional formats.
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Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?
So I'm curious, since you're so obsessed with all this hot butt sex you've been having as Microsoft screws you, just how have they screwed you lately? What hostile actions has Microsoft taken towards open source lately? Was it opening the Microsoft Open Source Labs? Was it making sure PHP runs equally well on IIS as it does on Apache? Was it launching the open source
.NET portal CodePlex? Maybe it was their monetary investment in several big open source projects? Wow, damn those evil bastards!! -
Re:Why make the leap in the first place?
Silverlight 2 supports MP3 and WMV files. WMV uses the SMPTE standard VC-1 codec.
Silverlight 3 (in public beta) adds support for MPEG-4 files and the H.264 and AAC-LC codecs. Most MPEG-4 files that play well in both QuickTime and Flash will also play inside Silverlight 3.
And bear in mind that the FLV spec you pointed to is just the file format. There are no public specs for either the VP6 video codec, or the Flash streaming protocols.
There's no such thing as the "Silverlight video format." There is the new Smooth Streaming technology, but the file format there is an ISO MPEG-4 implementation.
As for WHY Silverlight for media, check out:
http://www.smoothhd.com/
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Re:mod_rewrite
There are several ISAPI filters for IIS which support mod_rewrite functionality
For example this one on Microsoft's IIS site : http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1599 -
Re:Apache is very Microsoft
Funny you mention it, because, just as MS is toying with Apache, it's also working on improving FastCGI support in IIS, solely for the sake of it running PHP better.
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Re:Careful what you ask for...And streaming is inefficient. You not only require a continuous throughput at a reasonably high bitrate, but after you've finished downloading your 20 megabytes of content for that 2-minute video clip, your client does you the favor of immediately deleting it. So the next time you want to watch the video, you get the joy of re-downloading it. WTF? In an age of $200 terabyte hard drives, that's ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that way. In Windows Media, for example, we have the Fast Cache option, which allows the client to buffer the streamed assets so that you can watch the same part of the stream again without having to resend.
Now, in the big picture, the usage models between progressive download over http and streaming over UDP are going away pretty quickly. With byterange seek, you can do random access in progressive download now, and with server-side bitrate throttling you can avoid the problem of a user on a fast connection pulling down bits at 20x real time.
By example, the IIS Media Pack: http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=22
Now the one thing that's only possible with streaming is live broadcasting.
That said, I think the original article is rather misguided; nearly all streaming today is 3 Mbps or less, and most of it is less than 1000 Kbps. They could be doing a LOT of bandwidth capping and streaming would still work pretty well. The big limit for streaming is really all those people with 1.5 Mbps DSL lines, especially since in a modern household, that 1.5 Mbps can be split between lots of people and applications. -
Glad to see Slashdot slinging FUD
Here is the truth on this folks.
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http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2008/04/25/sql-injection-attacks-on-iis-web-servers.aspx -
Re:Bias?
The admins on the ground seem to disagree with you. From that page, "Our initial investigations are pointing at an attack through IIS using ASP in an overload."
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Re:epic lolWow. The responses on the forum http://forums.iis.net/t/1148917.aspx?PageIndex=1 are sad indeed. Windows Security patches DON'T protect against shittily built websites. My favorite: I also have been hit by this attack on Saturday 4/12/08. It compromised our database and overwritten that script into all of your products. Luckily a database restore fixed the problem. Two days later the same thing happened, I have changed all the database and login passwords and did another db restore. Now today 4/18/08 we got hit again by the same thing but this time as the pages are loaded ActivX is activated and wants to run but of course I did not allow it. Anybody has successfully solved this situation? It truely sickens me how many web developers STILL don't know about SQL Injection.
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Re:So command line now?IIS runs on server core.
Currenly the
.NET Framework is not on Server Core, which means ASP.NET is currently not available. This is something the .NET team wants to add and we're working on adding it as soon as possible. Classic ASP works just fine, and with the new FastCGI support, PHP also runs great on Server Core.
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FTP over SSL
There's a post-RC0 update that you can get from http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&i=1526&g=6
which updates the FTP service so that it supports FTP over SSL. -
SFTP is a downloadable option
This link explains at a very high level why there is no SFTP out of the box, but it is a downloadable option.
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Re:Wall building?
http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1526 IIS 7 will support FTPS, it is currently in a separate download
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Re:Wall building?
FTP over SSL for Windows Server 2008, by Microsoft: http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1526
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Re:Why bother?I'm not sure whether you think IIS has a text file or not...
Still, for my fellow readers: With IIS7, all IIS configuration is now stored in a simple XML file called applicationHost.config, which is placed by default in the \windows\system32\inetsrv\config directory from an Apache v IIS blog entry that also discusses the fastCGI module. -
Re:From the person above
Well, you can read a great deal about it at http://www.iis.net/
You can also download a free evaluation good until April 2008 of Windows Server 2008 Beta 3 here:
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Re:Easy?
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Re:Easy?Enough of that nonsense, unless you have a 10,000 line display, you don't see ALL the options on one screen editing a text file. Nevermind how easy it is to have an error by typo.
You exaggerate to the detriment of your case. My web server's entire configuration file is exactly 125 lines long – less than three screenfuls in my text editor. And with Apache, for example, you can check your configuration file's syntax without actually running the server with apachectl configtest.
On the contrary, I find that plain text configuration files make administration much simpler. If I want to copy parts of a configuration from one server to another, it's as easy as yanking a bit of text. Documenting my settings involves merely dumping the contents of my configuration file to my manual, rather than expounding on my navigations through a GUI menu system.
It seems that Microsoft itself has come to recognize the weaknesses of GUI configuration, as one of IIS 7's most notable new features is that it is configured using plain text configuration files.
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Re:Home computers.
Well, then you should have a look over at the official IIS website amd see some of the improvements for IIS 7. Version 6 added more stability and allowed applications to be pooled, IIS 7 will allow full control over web server settings using the (formerly ASP.NET exclusive) web.config file. Also, Microsoft has been working on a new Fast CGI implementation which means that (for instance) PHP or Ruby will run under good conditions on IIS. Then there's ASP.NEt which has matured to a stable webplatform with good performance, big community, some good open source components, and support for multiple languages (including Python and Ruby in the near future) and a free IDE (Visual Web Developer Express). Last but not least, IIS in Vista has completely new administration screens, which makes it easier to configure.
I hear the security track record for IIS 6 is also pretty good.
So all together, I think IIS is good value, not just for professionals, but also for students and hobbyists.