uber1024's WebLogIt's not hot wings and beer, but it's still okayCommerce Server vs. Site Server object performance- January 30, 2006 We recently replaced a Site Server 3.0 site with Commerce Server 2002. Let me step back a minute. The sites don't really use the the server packages as intended. They use the pipelining process and the order form object model and that's about it, so we really miss out on a lot of opportunities here to leverage some of the cooler features of CS2002. However, the process of moving from one platform to another was relatively painless compared to the effort of moving a site..http://weblogs.asp.net/uber1024/archive/2006/01/30/436889.aspx File downloads from IIS 6.0- January 20, 2006 So we've moved 8 websites from Win2k to Win2k3. Some things have gone smoothly, some things have made me want to become a Buddhist monk (which actually wouldn't be that tough since I train in kung fu at a Buddhist temple here in Manhattan). One of the latter was enabling file downloads from the website. Basically, our client has a desktop app that needs to download updates from the website. We have a web service that lists the latest updates and their location and the...http://weblogs.asp.net/uber1024/archive/2006/01/20/436025.aspx AJAX to secure servers: semi-resolution- January 10, 2006 I had previously talked about a problem making XMLHTTP requests from IE to our secure (HTTPS) webserver. Microsoft support was very understanding but in the end it came down to this:"We can't help you. We've known about this but have no resolution. If you figure something out, let us know."We wound up rewriting our engine to do the Posts asynchronously and then setting a timer and trying again if the request took too long. It was an ugly, ugly hack and there was money...http://weblogs.asp.net/uber1024/archive/2006/01/10/435007.aspx Email woes when upgrading from Win2K to Win2k3- January 10, 2006 The SMTP standard, which no one not featured in the mockumentary "Trekkies" has read, states that bare linefeeds ( "n" ) are not allowed in the SMTP standard. Qmail servers interpret this strictly. There are qmail fanboy articles explaining why this is good. That's fine and the world continues.However, IIS 5 would catch what amounted to mistakes by developers and would silently rewrite "n" as "rn", which conforms to the SMTP standard. For whatever reason, IIS 6 does...http://weblogs.asp.net/uber1024/archive/2006/01/10/435005.aspx |