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Microsoft IIS v7 Details Emerge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the noting-the-future dept.

daria42 writes "According to several .NET and Longhorn bloggers, the next version of Microsoft's IIS web server will integrate ASP.NET and turn many core features into optional modules in order to provide a smaller security footprint for hackers to attack. In addition, the software's admin tool has been completely revamped, and will allow Web-based remote administration utilising SSL."

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  1. Re:oxymoronic? by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Opening up your application, let alone your OS for remote hacking.

    Well most servers have remote desktop enabled, and web administration of IIS has existed since IIS 5. I think the point was moreso that you'll be able to fully configure your site. One of the issues, mentioned in the article, that IIS currently has is that there is a disconnect, and overlap, between the settings necessary in IIS and ASP.NET to configure a site properly, and it would be nice if they merged them (which really would be mapping some of the IIS metabase XML into the Web.Config).

    Reading this article, I'm still not sure what the real message is- You can already create fully managed handlers and modules for IIS, and the idea of it being pulled "into" IIS is frightening, actually (IIS 6 is a gorgeous design because it is like a microkernel web architecture, with an extremely minimalist server module and cache that communicates to external modules to handle things like ASP.NET processing). I suspect some information was misunderstood.

  2. Re:Lame name alert by bigman2003 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well since SEQUEL stood for 'Structured English Query Language' (which seems VERY language specific) I figured that SQL was just 'Structured Query Language.'

    But SQL was just a shortening of SEQUEL for legal reasons...

    --
    No reason to lie.
  3. Re:Apache by molnarcs · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...If they started to give out modules that provided certain functionality ...

    I was looking for help on url_rewrite on google, when I bumped into some threads where users complained about $company's url_rewrite module not working as expected. He said that he regrets paying for it now. Others suggested him to try out isapi rewrite ... another pay for module that only provides freaking rewrite functionality. When I read those, I was soooo glad I never had to deal with IIS - I would have never thought that IIS users must go out hunting on google and actually pay for new modules for IIS that are compeletely free (and immediately available) for apache...

  4. Re:Apache by adolfojp · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Imagine having apache run .Net or ASP web applications."

    In my experience Mono http://www.mono-project.com/ has done a wonderfull job at runing ASP.NET apps and web services.

    To run clasic ASP get this.
    http://www.apache-asp.org/

    If you are concerned with their legality go check Tomcat and JBoss ;-)

    Cheers,
    Adolfo