IIS Express is a simple web server that can run on Windows with a couple of easy features for developers of Windows applications. This includes things like, webhooks, a modern way of accepting POST requests and responding to them. Each IIS Express site is managed on a user basis, as it’s written as a tool to assist with development. Many web applications will attempt to communicate with one another via a specific port. And when you’re using IIS Express, you’ll need to create a socket binding to that port and allow external users to connect (again, by default, IIS Express is configured for developers to test code on their own machines). To do…
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Setting FTP Banners in IIS
IIS is a pretty straight forward system to manage. One of the more common post-flight tasks for setups of IIS is to configure FTP banners. In Server 2003, this can be done by opening Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager from Start > Administrative Tools. Then, browse to the server name > FTP Sites > Default FTP Site (or the name of the one you would like to configure if you have multiple per server) and then click on the Properties for the site. At the FTP Site Properties pane, click on the Messages tab. Here, you can provide a Banner to be shown to unauthorized users, a Welcome page, to…
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WAF: Web Application Firewall
Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs, are firewalls for web application. They monitor web traffic and decide whether to allow or deny specific requests. IIS web servers (OWA), Apache, WebObjects, Lasso and other web servers will likely end up working with them, although I’ve only tested IIS and Apache at this point.
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ASP Defined
ASP stands for an Active Server Page, a type of web page that is hosted on a server that supports the ASP scripting engine. ASP is a file that contains text, HTML, and/or ASP scripting commands. ASP files use/require the *.asp extension. Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) supports ASP. You can also use ASP with varrying forms of (or add-ons for) Apache such as Apache::ASP::Install.