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    - recycle at set time I recently configured my application pool to recycle worker processes each morning at 4:30am. It doesn't seem to be recycling because I'm not seeing anything in the log that shows me it is. Previously I was recycling every 29 hours which was working but not a good approach for my website. Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to stop/start IIS to get the new configuration to take? Thanks for your help Tina Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380924
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    - php 5 post problem hi all i have a stupid problem on a php 5 iis w2k installation. if i request a script in the browsers location bar it works just fine. when i request the script via a form post i run into a cgi timeout error. even if this script contains a die("hi there") statement on line 1 it would not respond with the expected message "hi there" but just ends up in the timeout. i found some issues in the php buglist.. they are all related to php 4 though and seem to be solved. one guy sugested to use some tool from microsoft.. i have this but don't know what to change with it.. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/php-dev/2498609 any help or hint is apprciated. cheers ralphie ps: i have to use iis and php5 because its our customers deceision.. so a suggestion to switch to apache does not help me Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380919
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    - Application Pool recycling hangs Hi, We are having a few problems with ASP.Net pages hanging during load when an Application Pool is recycled. To test this we have setup the following ASP.net page which refreshes every 2 seconds: <%@ Page language="c#" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System" %> <%@ Import Namespace="System.IO" %> <script runat="server"> void Page_Load(Object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Label1.Text = DateTime.Now.ToString(); StreamWriter SW; SW=File.AppendText("c:/inetpub/wwwroot/log1.txt"); SW.WriteLine(DateTime.Now); SW.Close(); } </script> <html> <head> <title>Cache Test</title> <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2"> </head> <body> <form runat="server"> <asp:label id="Label1" runat="server" /> </form> </body> </html> I've also set the Application Pool that the site runs under in IIS 6.0 to Recycle every 1 minute (and set the Idle Timeout on the Performance tab to 1 minute). The page seems to refresh ok for a while in the browser each 2 seconds but sometimes when the Application Pool recycles the page load hangs for over one minute and will eventually start going again. On another machine however it runs continuously without hanging. Does anyone have an idea as to what the hanging might be caused by? Thanks - Wayne. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380918
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    - HTTP Requests Blocked for non admin users Hi, we have an application that is HTTP based hosted on a Windows 2003 Server (SP1) with IIS 6.0 which has been working fine to date. Authentication to the websites has been using Windows Integrated security and basic authentication. All of a sudden we are now having a serious problem in that it appears that the server is only allowing HTTP requests to the server where the user making the request is an administrator on the box. The websites that are hosted on this server can be accessed when connected as a local admin user but are rejected with a "HTTP 500 - Internal Internet Server Error" for non administrative users. When I take the friendly HTTP messages option off the error is "Unable to contact local security authority". It appears to me that the server has been changed in some shape or form and that security has been tightened in some way but I can't find where. We have additional servers in this environment some of which are also displaying this behaviour and some of which aren't (the only difference being that the server that isn't has not been patched recently). Has anybody out there come across a similar problem ? If so I'd be really appreciative if you could give me any help on tracking down what is causing this as it causing us major problems. Are there patches that could be causing this or could it be another tool causing this (IIS Lockdown, URLScan etc.). Any information greatly appreciated. Derek Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380916
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    - Webdav design Hi, I have a customer that has an FTP solution for their users. Users log on to ftp.domain.com and specify their network credentials. This is a Windows 2000 IIS server and the FTP site has been set so that the home directory points to \\SERVER\SHARE Under \\SERVER\SHARE we have all the user's home directories and in each home directory we have a private folder. Each home directory allows access to IUSR_IISSERVER so that they can publish web content and other people can surf in to their website. The private folder is not accessible to IUSR. On the FTP site the UNCUsername attribute has been removed so that the authenticated user's credentials are used when connecting to \\SERVER\SHARE So when they access the FTP site ftp.domain.com and specify their network creds they get automatically redirected to their own home directory under \\SERVER\SHARE I have propsed that we change this solution for one based on webdav using SSL. So the architecture would look a little like this: ISA 2004 (with SSL cert) -------- IIS 6.0 (Webdav Server) ---------- File Server with home directories Does anyone know if we can get the redirect to work with web dav? i.e. A user browses to https://webdav.domain.com and then enters thier network creds. They then get redirected to their home directory under \\SERVER\SHARE Or must we specify https://webdav.domain.com/userid Thanks in advance for any help Simon Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380911
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    - Problem of 'SaveResult' on IIS6 We have IIS6 and FrontPage Extension 2002 installed on Windows2003 Server. The problem is: when trying to visit an asp page with a 'SaveResult' webbot, we found the webbot could not work properly -- precisely no .csv file was created in the right place, nor were any data saved. Would anybody know what may be the likely causes, or show us the right configuring procedure? Thanks so much. -- Hi there Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380906
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    - Set Named Servers Lately, I transferred our domain name from a registered company to another. My question is, if we are hosting our own website and email what we should put on the name server within the new registered company. All I know is that the name server settings control how a domain name is resolved, but I am unsure of what to put in the configuration settings. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380903
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    - setup multiple ftp site with single ip hello all, i read many articles about "isloation user mode" ,but still can't setup "multiple ftp site with single ip" on windows 2003 how someone brief my step by step for this? currently , i got the error when I login ftp is " home directory is not accessible" Thanks in advanced. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380901
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    - how to get IIS (W3Svc) state(running or stop...) with program -- carson Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380896
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    - How to get a client to trust our Servers SSL Certificate? We have an IIS server that has a SSL certificate installed on the default webpage. We need our remote clients which are NOT part of the domain to be able to connect to and trust that server. Right now they can connect, but every time they do so, it says "This Security Certificate Was Issued by a Company that You Have Not Chosen to Trust". Is there a way to manually configure the clients to trust this domain/server/certificate? Clients that are within the domain can connect to the server with no issues at all. Thanks guys It's my first form that I am using to get some answers, (make it a good one) Zab Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380894
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    - How do I configure PathInfo? How do I configure IIS 6 (and 5 for that matter) so that PathInfo works? For example: http://www.host.domain/forum/showImage.aspx/m_123-ff328c1.gif Should go to /forum/showImage.aspx and a call to HttpRequest.PathInfo should return m_123-ff328c1.gif. HOWEVER, all I get is a 404 error... Ideas? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380893
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    - w3wp.exe running at 100% Last night my IIS6 server running on Server 2003 started to lock up when loading an asp.net page. I'm running MySQL 5 and dotNet 2.0. The CPU usage was at 100% because of a process called w3wp.exe. I've done some research but have gotten no definitive answers as to how to take care of the problem - not being an IIS efficinado. I made no changes to the server before the problem started. There are 4 virtual directories running in the default application pool - so I've learned from various posts. I did find one post on a site the said they had the solution but they wanted my credit card number and $9.95 a month. I suppose that's not like talking on the phone for 4.95 a minute but probably better than talking to MS at $250 per incident. I tried MS web site and nothing specific there either. At any rate, rather than parting with any money, I thought I'd try the freebee route. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thank, Jim Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380890
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    - aspnet_wp.exe stopped unexpectedly and Server Application Unavailable Configuration: Windows 2000 Server SP4 .Net Framework 1.1 SP1 Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Problem: the following error messages start showing up in the EVENT LOG on the server every once in a while until server becomes un-usable and has to be rebooted; users see in the browser Server Application Unavailable message; this seems to happen more less every two weeks error 1 aspnet_wp.exe could not be started. The error code for the failure is 800705AA. This error can be caused when the worker process account has insufficient rights to read the .NET Framework files. Please ensure that the .NET Framework is correctly installed and that the ACLs on the installation directory allow access to the configured account. error 2 aspnet_wp.exe (PID: 4856) stopped unexpectedly. We have tried a bunch of things: re-install .Net Framework, run aspnet_regiis.exe, created a new user and configured it to be the worker process user in machine.config (granting that user all necessarry permissions per MSFT KB article) We have not tried elevating the permission in machine.config to SYSTEM in the processModel section (will that even help? I know this is a security risk). We did not try re-installing IIS. We are also trying the IIS Diagnostics Toolkit to grab the dump when IIS crashes. We have not been able to get any data yet. Does anyone have any clues? Our current BAND-AID fix is to reboot the servers weekly. Thanks, Paul. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380886
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    - virtual web authentication method 2003 server (IIS 6.0) in a domain. I have a virtual web site in IIS and I have "Enable anonymous access" checked as my authentication method, but I still cannot access the virtual web. It ask for an username/password. TIA Troy Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380885
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    - ASP.NET error on server but not on workstation I'm developing an ASP.NET v2.0 application that runs fine on my local workstation IIS (v5.5 on XP I believe). However when I publish it to my Windows 2k3 server it reports "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when button is clicked on the page. The stack track looks like it finds the button however stops when after it lists the code behind routine that takes care of the click event. I'm really at a loss here. I've tried to get remote debugging to work to see if I can track it down some more however even when I attach to the process on the server it won't step through my code. That also bothers me. Both websites are configured identically aside from the normal server versus personal IIS differences, which really isn't that many. They are using the same web.config file which ultimately sets up the ASP.NET 2.0 config on their respective websites. I'm completely at a loss here. It seems like it just can't find my code behind in the dll's that are uploaded. Any insights? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380884
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    - versioning IIS 6 xml metabase Are there any guidelines or recommendations for or against versioning xml configuration as part of SDLC process? We are thinking about versioning a single xml metabase file in our SCM tool. This single xml file would be the standard configuration to be used in multiple environments such as dev, test, and prod. During deployment, server-specific details such as ip addreses would be set by performing an XSL transformation on the xml metabase. The goal would be to 1) version IIS configuration as a single xml file 2) separate server-specifc configuration (ip addresses) from IIS configuration 3) merge server details and IIS configuration at deployment time Does this seem reasonable, or what are some other ways to version / manage changes to IIS configuration? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380882
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    - Mini-Redirector and WebDAV Would somebody be able to confirm whether or not mini-redirector on a Windows client can interact with a WebDAV provider that is not IIS-based? I have implemented a webdav server using a java servlet running within WebLogic. I can connect and operate successfully using the older "Web Folders" provided within the client OS but cannot successfully connect in mini-redirector mode. I cannot find any information on what mini-redirector expects during the "handshake" phase of a connection attempt to something like http://myServer/myDavConnection Can this be done or could someone refer me to where I may be able to find more info on getting redirector working against non-IIS WebDAV providers? Thanks in advance for any help! Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380878
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    - Email Alias I work for a school district and have been trying to research the feasibility of using email aliases for students. The process I'm after is exactly that which SourceForge has for it's members: "Each user is provided with an email alias in the form username@users.sourceforge.net. This mail alias forwards email to the email address on-file for your user account. This email address is provided during the user account registration process, or through an update via the Account Maintenance page." For the life of me, I can't find out how to do this or what is required hardware, software, web, etc. Can someone help me with information on this? The user (student) would register on the website and fill in their real email address and their username would be an alias that will pass email to their real address. Thanks. -- Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380869
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    - Problems with Redirecting... Greetings, I am running IIS 6 (with Exchange 2003) and want to accomplish the following: Default web site should take users to a redirected website (I know how to setup redirect feature) but directories under the default should not redirect users to another site. So for instance, if default web site is installed as http://serverA, I want users to be redirected to http://serverB when they type http://serverA in the browser but if they type, http://serverA/Exchange, they should stay on serverA and not be redirected to serverB. I can get default web site to redirect to ServerB but the problem is that why I try to get to the directories under the same server, I am redirected to ServerB as well. When I made the changes for redirection (on default web site), it did ask me if child nodes (for instance, exchange, public, oma etc) should inherit (highlight and click ok option) the new settings but I did not highlight on any directories and just clicked OK (also tried clicking on cancel which should not be the case). The problem is that when I even try to manually go into the virtual directories and change configuration â??no redirect â?? A directory on this computer..â?? and click ok on it, it does not retain the settings. Am I missing anything here, any help in this regard would be highly appreciated. Thanks, Feddie Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380868
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    - Certificate is going to expire I have an internal certificate on my iis 6.0 server that is going to expire. How do I renew it? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380867
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    - IIS 4.0 and NT 4.0 - Extremely SLOW Hi all... I have a problem. My sites running IIS 4.0 and NT 4.0 were running great but in the last week, they have slowed right down. They don't crash but it can take up to 20 seconds to load a page. I've checked the CPU usage and it's fine. Is there a way that I can start trying to find out what is wrong? Any help or advice would be great. Thanks Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380864
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    - Internal connection fatal error Hi everybody. I am experiencing a problem with IIS 5, WebServices and SQL Server 2000. I have installed a microsoft cluster with Windows 2000 Enterprise Edition. In the first node I have the IIS 5 installed (Windows 2000 Ent. Ed. SP4). In the second node, i have SQL Server 2000 Ent. Ed. SP4. We have some Webservices on node one that access to the dabatabase. Those webservices writes to a log file some information. I see that many of them says "Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding." and in some ocasions appears the message "Internal connection fatal error". I have been searching at Google, Microsoft, etc. about this problem, but i see nothing concrete. Please, can anybody help me. Thanks a lot.... Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380862
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    - SMTP Relay Error using CDONTS and the .CC property in ASP Hey, this is a real head scratcher. The following code works as written: Set objMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") objMail.From = "test@insidedomain.com" objMail.To = "test@outsidedomain.com" objMail.Subject = "SMTP TEST" objMail.Body = "TESTING" objMail.Send Set objMail = Nothing However if I add the the following code after the .To statement: objMail.CC = "test@insidedomain.com" What happens is that the mail gets delivered to the .CC address but a relay error occurs on the .To address. Once I take out the .CC statement, the .To address gets the delivery. Any ideas? Thanks. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380855
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    - Simple software to read IIS logs Please can anyone recommend a simple program to interpret IIS logs. I don't want to have to write scripts or code Many thanks Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380840
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    - MS hotfix 842130 Hi http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842130 We need to apply this hotfix. Can anyone tell me will the server need a reboot? Article doesn't say one way or the other so I'm guessing not but can I be sure? Cheers Mike Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380839
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    - Migartion iis 5.0 Hej, is there a tool to migrate IIS 5.0 (Windows 2000) to IIS 6.0 (Windows2003) on another host? IISV5Migration-Utility_x86.exe only migrates to IIS5.0 on another Windows 2000 host Thanks a lot Ruth Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380836
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    - ASP.NET USER MISSES I I've an installation of 2003 sbs, iis 6 and framework. Now I need to manage security over some files and I can't find ASP.NET Group/User. I've already ran the following command "..\v1.1.4322\aspnet_regiis.exe -i" and return no errors but still no asp.net. Has anyone got any clues? Thanks in advance -- Obrigado! Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380835
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    - how to get the W3SVC service state how to program with VC to get the W3SVC service state(Running or stop) Thanks -- carson Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380834
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    - Metabase Backup files Folks, I'm trying to understand how the IIS Metabase backups work. A metabase backup will create two files. "The files that are created are named Name.MD# and Name.SC#, where Name is the name you specify and # is the version number of the backup set, starting with zero (0). If you use the same name for subsequent backups, the version number will be incremented by 1 for each backup set that uses the same name." http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/475fb247-984d-4c65-842a-ae3bdd3e1080.mspx?mfr=true The when the backup runs the SC file will retain a 'Date Modified' of when IIS was first installed whilst the MD file will have the 'Date Modified' of when the Metabase backup actually ran. What are the purposes of each file? Regards, Tostao Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380833
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    - fck + upload hi i used fckeditor 2.2 and asp.net i have a problem with upload picture or anything under upload tag i have no problem under image pro tab go to server create new files pictures etc.. and in the upload.html under upload file but i have problem when upload pic under upload tag how can i solve this problem thanks.. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380832
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    - FP-webs turn into applications after publishing When publishing a frontpage web with frontpage 2002 to our new Windows 2003-server something strange happens. IIS/FP2002 'upgrades' the folder to an 'application' with it's own dcom component. Our brand new server seems to have problems handeling 500 of these applications and crashes... This problem doesn't occur when publishing with frontpage 98. Question: What can we do to make sure that IIS/FP doesn't make an application of every frontpage web??? I hope anyone can help us. We have been dealing with a very instable server for the past few weeks... Thank you in advance! Greetings, Norbert Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380831
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    - IIS 5.1 documentation Does anyone know where I can find IIS 5.1 documentation, online or otherwise. I have an MSDN subscription. Thanks for any help. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380830
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    - changing iis 5.0 windows service account I tried to change the service startup account from local system to a user account. The server starts but I cant't connect to the webserver using the browser. The user account in the local administrator group and I am running windows XP. Has anyon got any clues? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380829
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    - OWA 2003 Password Change I've setup OWA and users can access. Now, I am trying to allow for password changing. The virtual directory is setup and each time anyone attempts to change their password, they get the following message: "Either the password is too short or password uniqueness restrictions have not been met." I checked my policy and it's set for a minimun of 7 characters with nothing special. I can change a password by loging in directly to the network but when trying in OWA I get the above message. Any ideas? Thanks, dD Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380828
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    - HTML Form not posting IIS6 Just set up a new Win2003Server (installed SP1 as well) with IIS6. Still pretty new to it, and I seem to have a problem I don't understand..... Created two classic .asp pages, one with a <form> and the second to collect and process the submitted info. Nothing I haven't done a thousand times before, but for some reason the Form data doesn't seem to be posting to the second page. Form on first page: <form name="Login" action="page2.asp" method="post"> UserName: <INPUT type="text" id="uname"> Password: <INPUT type="password" id="pword"> <INPUT type="submit" value="Login" id="submit1"> </form> And on the second page, I put: Response.Write Request.Form, which spits out all the form info that was posted, but I get absolutely nothing. Is there some new feature or security setting in IIS6 that prevents/turns off Form posting? I've never seen this behavior before and trying to Google this subject is not giving me any usable answers. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Andrew Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380824
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    - Listing Directories with Anonymous Access Disabled I'm running an IIS 5.1 web server at home (Windows XP Pro), and what I was hoping to do is list all of the directories for a web site which have anonymous access disabled. Does any one know of an existing tool which could do this? TIA Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380819
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    - Any IIS 5.0 export/import tool I have a lot of websites running on IIS 5.0. I'm worried when if my server ever gets corrupted, I would have to set all of the sites again from scratch. I heard that there's a free MS tool for importing and exporting complete IIS 5.0 settings, can someone direct me to the download area for this tool? Thank you. Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380806
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    - File will not download with IIS 6, even after adding MIME type I'm using Win Server 2003 SP1, and I'm trying to make a file with the extension .sitx downloadable from my site (it's a Stuffit archive format). I've tried adding the MIME type as described in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326965 but it still does not work. I added .sitx, and then application/octet-stream. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380803
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    - possible MDAC issue hanging web servers? Hello, We have a web farm of win2K machines, IIS 5, MDAC 2.6 server 2003 machines, IIS 6.0, MDAC 2.8 all connecting to Oracle DB, using ADO which use ODBC drivers. We use MS ODBC for Oracle and Oracle ODBC. all connect using TCP connections (thru SQLnet) to the DB server. the ODBC drivers use connection pooling. We noticed that sometimes web servers "hang", that is they will not respond to web requests, and then will clear themselves after few seconds to minutes. when opening trace on the oracle client we noticed there is a distinct "break" in the trace file, that is nothing is written for the period we see the server stuck. Microsoft acknowleged a bug in MDAC 2.5 which would cause a web server to "hang", it looks exactly like our problem. is there any chance this same problem exists on these MDACs? is there any fix for MDAC 2.8 SP1 or otherwise? We have turned off connection pooling on half of the servers to see if this solves the issue. can we estimate the impact to performance? Tag: Error Pages & Bitmaps Tag: 380797
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    - Is Welfare Part of Capitalism? This article is dedicated to: A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia. Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution. Ten thousands of peaceful smugglers that are massacred in Banda island by the Dutch for conducting peaceful spice trade and all that are similar to them. All minority groups and individuals that face discrimination, even genocide, for economically contributing too much for their society. All customers that have to pay higher products due to protection of tariff and trades. Productive people that are fined with income tax for the victimless crime of making honest money. Smart students that are slowed down so not to move too fast. Industries that do not get subsidy, or even banned to protect unproductive industry and laborers that earn much less due to such restrictions. Poor starving people that could have been rich had their countries choose to embrace free market. Women and males that are trapped in unhappy marriage which they have a hard time getting out. Women and children that have lots of their best choices taken under the pretext of protection. Immigrants and refuges. Is welfare part of capitalism? In short, no. In consensually, punishing the productive through income tax to reward parasitic behavior is the biggest affront against the principle of free market. In fact, from many governments intervention in economy, the one that proponents of free market often oppose the most is welfare. However, when we look further, capitalism and welfare is not really total opposites. Most importantly, properly done, a straight forward welfare program can cause less market distortion, and hence an efficient replacement to buy votes from losers, than farm subsidies, public schools, minimum wage, trades restrictions, tariffs, and sex laws. If it's done by taxing wealth, rather than income, the amount of market distortion can be minimized further. Welfare is also cheap. It'll cost $5000/year to a welfare recipient in USA, for example. However, we need to remember that the recipients' lifestyle worth only $500. The other $4500 goes to implicit welfare due to higher living costs. That implicit welfare includes minimum wage, immigrations laws, and food subsidy, or protections. If somehow a straight forward explicit welfare program can replace all relatively more evil governments' interventions, then capitalists are probably better of not opposing welfare so much. Even Milton Friedman supports schemes called guaranteed minimum income, which is like welfare but with much less market distortion. That's not where the similarity ends. One of the main creeds of capitalism is that consent and competition should be preferred over force. Without that consent, anyone can simply make us choose to make our self worst of under the pretext that it is for our own good. In fact, most laws against consensual acts can be traced down to protection of some disgruntled competitors often done under the pretext of the consenting parties' own good. Anti prostitution and anti polygamy laws, for example, is there to ration females to poor dumb males under the pretext of protecting the consenting women. Of course, all natural resources tend to be rationed somewhat proportional to ones' voting power. And that does explain why democracy and anti polygamy laws go hand in hand too. One man one vote soon leads to one man one wife. Well, at least Matt Ridley agrees with me and he's a well known mainstream scientific researchers. I guess that's also why so many uncompetitive people want to ensure that evolution theory is not taught in school. You can also read a famous psikiatrist book, "The road less traveled," you'll see that life long monogamous marriage is just a trap to prevent highly desirable people from being available to those who they want more, and romance is just the lure to that trap. On the women side, anti pornography laws is really meant to prevent highly desirable women from advertising her assets and hence protecting less pretty women from the higher industry standard a public display of superior desirability might cause. Countries that embrace porn tend to have prettier women. Where did all the unsexy ones go? They're all shifting out of the gene pool, and hence are doing their best to oppose porn preaching religious doctrines that men should judge women based on any features but beauty, which they can't offer. Another issue is consent. Welfare program is not consensual; however, it's relatively more consensual then civil war. In ancient time, when we have different ideological opinions, we end up killing each other to proof who are "right." The Catholic would kill the Gnostic, the Sunni would kill the Shiah. One King would kill the other. A younger prince will argue that the older prince is demon. Might makes right. Such differences of opinions are of course solved with war, which is a very cost inefficient way to know who're "right." However it does work in some subjective practical sense. If we look in the past and try to figure out whether the Gnostic or the Catholic is the one that's heretical or "right" respectively, we need only to see who won. The Gnostics are slaughtered, so they must be the heretic, or do they? At least I bet there are way more people in the world that think that way than the other way around, excluding me actually. It doesn't matter how many books many institutionalized religions burned, how much restrictions of freedom of speech and irrationality they embraced, how many witnesses they snuffed outs and all other techniques that would not have stand the scrutiny of a peer reviewed scientific journal, or even a reasonable jury in the court of law. Too many people don't believe who are right and reasonable, they believe who are mighty. Right or wrong, the win will always become right anyway. Now, under democratic context, we don't kill those who oppose us, rather we try to persuade enough people to join our cause. How do we persuade them? By money of course. Welfare program is then a reasonably cost efficient method to buy votes. When too many people are on a side, we will sort of know that going to war will hurt the other side; hence we comply anyway with the whim of majority avoiding the costly alternatives. While not ideal, this is indeed how right and wrong is really decided, proper assessments of each sides' bargaining position and mutually cherished compromised line of war, plus a bunch of lies covering what's going on to safe each sides' face. No matter how noble the purpose, lies and prejudices lead to misunderstanding, that leads to more war. Hence, the best contribution is simply to unmask all lies. All in all, peaceful democracy is indeed a more cost efficient ways to measure ones' bargaining position. While democracy often lead to decisions opposites of freedom, like popularly supported victimless crime, income tax, and welfare, it's indeed relatively more cost efficient than civil war. That's not when the coherency end. Various natural laws restrict various possible political outcomes. We can't expect a stone will fly to the sky when we drop it as much as we cannot expect a human to be generally unselfish. If we want to kill our enemies, we'll do well dropping a big stone on top of our enemies head rather than dropping the stone on top of our own head expecting the stone to somewhat magically fly to the enemies head. The same way, we can't demand market distortion and expect that the best and brightest among us to still magically be a nice tax payer rather than dictators and corruptors. In a country where selling porn or building a good franchise chain is more difficult and less lucrative than becoming a dictator, guess what the smart would end up doing? Ask Saddam. If we want rich and prosperous countries, we must know that it will and only will happen when we properly align individuals' interests with productivity. Such coherency tends to make certain things come in package with another. We can expect that moving electric field will induce magnetic field. The same way, in life, we observe similar things. Communism and socialism, for example, always come in package with dictatorship and corruptions when smart people realize that being dictators pay more than building a business empire. To the opposite capitalistic countries comes in package with softer deals for losers, such as, guess what, welfare. We know from our economic classes that free market capitalism brings prosperity within market mechanism. However, it turns out that the prosperity that free market brings also profit the less successful beyond market mechanism. Capitalism and the prosperity that come with it tend to facilitate ideological changes in ways that benefit the less successful. One such ideological change is the popular support for losers' benefits. One such benefit is, guess what, welfare. The most obvious samples of such ideological shifts the free market bring are the elimination of slavery in US. What happened? As usual, the northern part of America is an industrial country. At that time, steel industries are relatively more modern than the farming industry. Higher tech industry increase labors' productivity. When labor's productivity goes up, entrepreneurs will want to hire as many workers as possible. Hence, labors' salary will go up. This will kill of industries with less labor's productivity. At the end, the marginal productivity of labors in the least productive industry will go up. That value is labors' salary. Under competitive equilibrium, the more productive and efficient a person is, the more he benefits everyone in the chain of productivity except those similar to him. Hence, an entrepreneurs coming up with ways to improve labors' productivity would benefit everyone, including workers and consumers, at the expense of other entrepreneurs and capitalists. Read that Karl Marx! Then what? When labors' salary goes up, obviously labors will move to the employers that pay them higher. Hence, farm labors in the south want to move to the north. They can't do so legally though because they were slaves. Hence, the northern capitalists in US want to free slaves so they can hire more workers. And then the southern capitalists in US want to keep slavery. This then results in war. The bigger the labors' productivity, the more intensive capitalists have to free slaves. The more supporters there will be on a cause the more likely the cause won. Hence, slaves were freed. Unfortunately, people still want to help losers and buy votes from those who are too expensive and too stubborn to switch. That explains why the farms in US gets subsidy. If losing means not as successful as the other, then there will always be losers. However, we see how free market shifts the worlds' system in ways that benefits the losers too. Unlike the commies' propaganda, capitalism does not cause or even enlarge disparity of wealth. Capitalism only changes the way such disparity are earned to the benefits of all. At the end of the warring states period in China, the king of Chin, Shih Huang Ti, and his prime minister, Li Si were the winner. Within one generation they have all their family slaughtered. If that's what winning means, what did losing means in pre-capitalistic countries? In ancient time, losing meant having all the males slaughtered, enslaved, or castrated and all the females raped and winning means risking your whole family slaughtered by rebels. In socialists countries the rich are corruptors and dictators that slice each other throats while the poor are starving. Now, thanks to the prosperity only free market can bring, losing means they can leave on welfare, with plenty of chance to climb back and proof their worth, like J. K. Rowling. Now, slaves are so free and highly paid thanks to increase in labors' productivity. In fact, when slave jobs are moving to China under globalization, slaves in US refused to be emancipated and want to keep their slave jobs in US rather than evolving into entrepreneurs. So, much for the land of the free and the place of the brave. Some people don't mind dying for what they believe in but are too scared to start a business. Evolutions will fix that I guess. Free market gives abundances to everyone. The benefits the free market brings benefit those less capable from being successful not only within the system but also through non market mechanism, like the ending of slavery and the start of reverse slavery we call welfare. But how do those really work? Is there a general principle? Each of us is greedy and selfish that we want as many as possible for us. Humans' greed and selfishness is an undisputable scientific facts, as sure as the sun rise in the east, as sure as a stone will fall to the ground pulled by gravity. We're not just greedy and selfish. Greed and selfishness doesn't explain all the war, suffering, and poverty we face. In fact, greed is good. Properly aligned, under free market, the greatest among us shall be the one productively providing the best service to the most customers. Blessed be the productive because they'll be rich. This will encourage higher and higher standard of living that we are currently enjoying. Free market allows those who serve more to grow richer. To those who have more profit, to those more capital are given. Even kingdom of heaven don't mind using this nice positive feedback effect. Who needs new deals to break up companies? Also, women prefer the rich. The next time you watch soap opera, make sure it's made in some country with the highest IQ in the world, like Hong Kong. Free sex means richer males will consensually attract and mate with more women producing more kids. That's the whole point of getting rich by the way. Duh? In fact, that's what being a living human male is all about: 1. Gain control ship of as much money or power as possible. 2. Attract or in anyway acquire as many females as possible. 3. Make kids. 4. Use that kids as tools to make grand children. You bet it's right because it's science. Of course, they don't teach this important fact in biology class because government interfere in education. Hence, when we're free, without genocide, without war, even with humanitarians aids given to appease enemies, the meek will indeed inherit the earth. More than greedy and selfish, some humans are simply not humans because they embrace the root of all evil, envy. That explains why we have so many laws against mutually beneficial consensual acts and governments regulations to protect us from our own choices. The truth is, all those laws and restrictions are more often not there to protect stupid people from making mistakes. All such laws are there to prevent the smart from making the right choices. That's why, for example, every body has to move equally slowly in school, to prevent the smart from moving faster. That's why various reproductive techniques are politically incorrect proportional to the expected quality of genetic material that will be duplicated. In particular, life long monogamous marriage, free sex, prostitution, polygamy, and cloning are sequences that both have increasingly expected value of genetic quality outcome and politically incorrectness. In Europe and China, the smart monks are encouraged not to get married. When some minority groups don't buy the bullshit and hence greatly improving their productively earned wealth and genetic quality, such minority groups somehow become victims of genocide. Life is like a real time strategy games. That means when we're not at war, we're in a race. That's simply how we evolve. Morality, religions, and ideologies, are stuffs created by really smart people to persuade us to run backward. Peace means we're in a race. Freedom means we are in a competition. Some people just don't want to compete. Hence, they craft lies and prejudices against those who are in front preventing progress to prosperity. I'll tell you the scientific truth. It's from the fruit we knows the tree. Anyone opposing free trades and globalization is more evil than Hitler or Nazi. If only Japan and German could have acquired natural resources through consensual peaceful trade, Nazism wouldn't have been popular there and Hitler wouldn't have risen to power. With his mass hypnotic skills, he may have ended up as seminar speaker I guess. If only those who had wanted to incite the Second World War see all the miracles and prosperity the free market brings, they would have repented and embrace free market. Yet, after all the prosperity and wealth the free market is bringing to all of us, still many people choose to oppose competition, and hence, miss-properly align our interests from productivity. That is the cause of all evil in the world. All causes opposing free market can be negotiated and appeased. However, if the very thing that a group of people want to prevent is the success of the others, then the situation is pretty much kill or be killed zero sum game. How does such situation usually end up? What would be our optimum solutions for such situation? Under normal circumstances, an optimum solution of any business decisions is a solution where the marginal revenue equals to the marginal costs. Hence, in a zero sum game, each party will try to maximize its benefit to that point. Sometimes, the marginal costs have a spike. There is a certain point where increasing a resources allocation beyond a certain point will create adverse costs. For example, increasing the number of labors will increase revenue. After a certain point, increasing one additional labor will mean buying a new machine or building a new factory. We may end up choosing to do it, we may not. In either case, discretions are the better part of the valor when it comes to that line. The same way, in most countries, each of us can increase our profits using property we own or consensually rent. When we maximize our profit that way, the public will, ideally and some times truly, not interfere, and defend us from being prevented to enjoy our "rights" by others. However, when we start using others' property to maximize our gain, say by stealing, public opinions may shift from protecting us to against us. Hence, the choice whether we should steal or not depends on the extra costs of crossing the politically correctness line of war. If a person sees that the potential gain justifies the increase costs of public support shifts, he'll still steal and make a great career out of it. Otherwise he'll stop stealing while coming up with a pretext to justify his cowardly decisions, such as morality. But what do the people choose their reaction to a specific act like stealing? They do so based on their sense of fairness, justice, and right-wrong discernment. How do people get that sense? From ideology. The ideology, religions, or whatever, then decides the line of war where the rest of us should consider before crossing. But how does the line gets drawn? By estimates of bargaining position. Let's examine an example. Is the King (or Queen?) of England the King of France? Don't know. How do we know? In the beginning, a ruling class from France went to England and become king of England. Then they lost control of France. Hence, king of England wanted to take back the controls they have lost. Well, such conflicts are solved by war. In this particular case, the war lasted 100 years. The British attacked France and successfully route knights with long bows. Then, the Frances stroke back driving the British back to their isolated islands. However, the France cannot move further and go all the way to attack British because of the Strait of Dover separating the two nations. Finally both sides realized that the straits somehow became the sacred line of war. It's not auspicious to cross the line of war for either side. The France, having more army and larger population would beat up the British on land, and the British being stronger at sea can always repulsed France sea invasion. Hence, we got peace. Such natural separators like straits and mountains explain why Europeans are divided into many different countries. The Chinese, not having that natural line of war, end up getting united all the time. Now, let's get back to the question whether welfare is part of capitalism. If all of us have just enough food, and some people don't work, what would we end up doing to those who are not productive? Humans' basic instincts and preferences lead to gene pool survival. When food is scarce, such as when the people demand centralized planning, it would serve ones' gene pool survival to slaughter the parasites rather than sharing food to them. That's because sharing food to those who do not earn it means starving ones own self. In fact, humans will kill each other to literally eat each other when food is scarce. Such is what happened in China and Rusia when centralized planning, governments' intervention in economy, and prejudices against successful capitalists became the norm. However, when food and money are abundance, such as when the people embrace free market, fighting the parasites might cause more gene pool survival lost than feeding them. On the other hand, simply giving and yielding toward threaten will motivate people to keep pushing us around. Moreover, giving in to those who can use force against us will motivate countries to build arms rather than say, better video games. Hence, one possible strategy to minimize open war while still properly aligning ones interest with other individuals around them is to give to those who ask nicely and ask less. As free market brings a lot of abundance, those who are needy can be appeased much more cheaply than those who are envy, and hence, we got welfare program. To be frank, I'd rather see the unproductive people have bigger TV rather than letting them make more kids. It's more humane, and cheaper. Guess what? Most people that know they're not very capable either would rather have that too. Back to the France vs British. If only both sides have realized the true bargaining positions of each, they wouldn't have to resort to such expensive 100 years war right? The thing is, the 100 years war are the most credible and accurate ways to measure ones' bargaining position. War shows which one is stronger, and hence leads to a mutual understanding of where the line of war might be. If only we can wave our gun and scare the enemies, it'll be great. However, the only threats that are credible are those actually done. How do we know a cause's bargaining position? Democracy might give some light by counting the number of those who are in favor or against what we consider lesser evil. However, number counting can be deceiving. We hold this truth with plenty of evidences, that humans are inherently different. We have difference capability and preferences, and hence different choices and outcome. It's useless to lay net in front of anything with wings. Those who are genetically predestined to be successful will get rich anyway whether through honest capitalistic means or through dictatorship. Those who are small in numbers can hence be quite strong. Preventing the smart from making money honestly will then turn them into corruptors and dictators. When the Chileans demand to prosecute their entrepreneurs, they end up getting a dictator, the way any country that demand slavery over freedom deserves. Fortunately, Pinochet are relatively benign compared to others dictator and embrace free market giving the miraculous prosperity that the Chilean now enjoy. Now, US government arrested his daughter for a crime of tax evasion. An act that wouldn't have been a crime if making honest money is free. The miracle of Chili becomes the model of China's moving to free market. It also helps to end communism all over the world peacefully. If capitalists fail to show thanks to Pinochet family, I don't know what would happen to all of us. So, beyond number counting, the more accurate ways are then through skirmishes. When people cross the public's opinion line of war and we don't strike back, the line of war will shift against the coward by precedence. By fighting back, we'll then have a more accurate knowledge of which one the public would agree with. Hence, it's very important to retaliate to what others do to us, either good or bad. It's a pleasure to serve my friends, it's also a pleasure to wipe out envy enemies that are on our ways, should my friends wish or don't mind. When a fraudster tricks my brother over $3,900, my main concern is not to get my money back. My main concern is to get the fraudster to jail even if that will costs far more money than the $3,900. When a thief steals my money on 2001, my concern is also not to get my property back. What's just is to encourage the whole world to post any thieves conviction records on the net to prevent further larcenies. It makes me wonder though. Why people consider it cruel to damage a thief or a fraudster' reputation? The mere acts of making honest money are punishable by income tax. When Everett O. Lasher makes an argument in court, the case leads to $5000 fine, and understandably, a suicide. The mere acts of successfully fending of ones' home from thieves lead to a life long jail term for Tony Martin. Thousands would march against WTO demanding harsh laws to punish those exercising consensual trades. In Iran, the mere acts of switching religions can lead to death penalty. In Indonesia, new laws are being drafted giving years in prison for kissing in public. Of course, public rape during May riot are still far from being punished. This while murderers of Vincent Chin went free without jail term. Thousands would march to end death penalty against murderers. In Indonesia, religious fundamentalists can come to a house and destroy properties from houses providing consensual entertainment with polices watching. Those people often get away or lightly punish. If consensual productive acts are punished while damaging inconsensual forces are not, soon, all highly productive people would end up in gas chamber after the next Cultural Revolution, or what ever. Those who are left are those smart enough to be dictators enslaving the rest of us. Prejudices reminds me of an envy old hag that's so determined to ruin my reputation for being friendly to her and her friends, after her own friendly communication. I never intended to fraud anyone or steal her money yet I got my reputation ruined. I am very disappointed to see that there are people in the world that want to bring me down more than they want to bring down a thief. I have tried to resolve the issue privately by suggesting to that thing that she's really not important enough for anyone to pretend to be her friend. Moreover, I didn't need her as a friend. All this was just a damage-less misunderstanding caused by her own friendly communication which I could simply publicly straighten out. At least, it used to be. However, that vermin really wished to get the issue public telling lies that she never communicated with me, possibly to boost that things' feeling of importance her genes deny her. Well, if she got so mad over a few friendly introductions, I can only wonder what that thing would do when it finds out that her true envy natures are revealed to 55000 newsgroups several times. It'll happen again and again whenever I feel like. Hence, just look for "envy vermin" on the net to find out what's really going on including what she said privatedly. Let the public decide who are more honest, rational, scientific, and straightforward. Let the market decides which one are worthy and who are worthless. It's a great mistake to ever consider such thing as a friend, a mistake no body should do. It's her kind that turns people of from making money productively. Hopefully we can undermine public opinions against all form of envy motivated lies and prejudices. 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I am having some issues displaying images on custom error pages. For
example, I have altered the "Certificate Required" and "SSL Required" error
page to look like our application, but am not able to get images to display.
The page displays but I get "X"s for the images I guess because SSL could
not be established properly.

Is there a way to create custom error messages with images for these types
of messages?

TIA
Mark

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Re: Error Pages & Bitmaps by Spynwhanker

Spynwhanker
Wed Apr 05 10:27:01 CDT 2006

"Mark Pfeifer" <mpfeifer@online.nospam> wrote in message
news:OrIbvrLWGHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>I am having some issues displaying images on custom error pages. For
>example, I have altered the "Certificate Required" and "SSL Required" error
>page to look like our application, but am not able to get images to
>display. The page displays but I get "X"s for the images I guess because
>SSL could not be established properly.
>
> Is there a way to create custom error messages with images for these types
> of messages?
>
> TIA
> Mark
>
>

Use relative from root references for your images and links in the custom
error page.

I.e. "/images/image.gif" not "images/image.gif" or "../images/image.gif"

I dont think IIS switches the URL and generates a new request for a custom
error, it just sees the path is wrong and defaults to the other file of the
hard drive. If you use other type links, unless the error file and the non
existant file request are the same folder, you will get the "X".

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RE: Error Pages & Bitmaps by v-yren

v-yren
Fri Apr 07 07:37:55 CDT 2006

Hi Mark,

Thanks for posting!

As other communicators' suggestion, you can not customize the error for the
current issue. If there are some error for the image URL, the image is
displayed as "X" in the page. The IE browser will render the error as "X".
In another word, this is the IE browser behavior. If you switch to other
web browsers, you will get other kinds of error icon.

However, I have a little confusion why you want to set the custom error. Do
you think the error is appropriated? If you want to resolve the problem,
please check the IIS log and post some clues here. This will help me to
understand the issue very well. Thanks for your understanding!

Regards,

Yuan Ren
Microsoft Online Community Support
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