[thelist] Christmas Tip..... IIS 5.0 quirk

Scott Dexter sgd at ti3.com
Fri Dec 22 16:06:54 CST 2000


> However, with IIS 5.0 the server will continue to process the 
> infinite loop 
> after you have closed your browser connection. Therefore you have 
> effectively performed a denial of service attack against your 
> own machine!
> 
 
Thankfully, ASP.NET catches these things and will shut them down
automagically (or so the docs say, I haven't tested it)

sgd




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