In our monthly newletter, we cover HTTP and IIS happenings. Here are some tasty HTTP Bytes from January 2005:
If you're on Windows Server 2003, Scott Forsythe offers a handy guide to deploying IIS 6 native compression:
http://aspalliance.com/589
(Our favorite line, very unbiased: "If you want to save yourself the hassle of understanding all of this, purchase ZipEnable from Port80 Software. This is a tool that gives you full control down to the folder and file level and embeds itself into the IIS MMC snap-in, making things much easier.")
Just one more shameless plug...following up on our Fortune 1000 Cache Control Survey, Mark Gibbs reviews CacheRight:
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/web/2004/1213web1.html
Microsoft has released their Server Performance Advisor diagnostic tool for Server 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=61a41d78-e4aa-47b9-901b-cf85da075a73&displaylang=en
Thanks to Brett Hill (we seem to thank him every month, don't we?) for pointing us to this guide to installing PHP on IIS:
http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.txt
Wicked Code: 5 Undiscovered Features on ASP.NET 2.0:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/05/02/WickedCode/default.aspx
This Month in Creepy: Google offers access to - and in some cases, control of - over 1000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/08/web_surveillance_cams_open_to_all/
This Month in Reprehensible: A new worm is posing as an appeal for aid to the tsunami victims
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0117newworm.html?nl
This Month's Vocabulary Lesson: Obfuscation
http://www.developer.com/java/data/article.php/3445751
This Month in (Healthy) Paranoia: A couple security stories...
Trojan Takes 1st Place in Top 10 List of Malware:
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/39362.html
A New Era of Internet Threats Looms:
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/A-New-Era-of-Internet-Threats-Looms-38860.html
Looking back on 2004, SearchWin2000 offers an in-depth guide to the Windows Products of the Year:
http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/productsOfTheYear/1,294801,sid1,00.html
And looking forward, Howard Anderson make 25 predictions for 2005 (you'll also find bold predictions from all of NWWorld's other columnists):
http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2005/011005crystalballanderson.html?vo&code=nlvoice944
Best,
Port80