Appendix . How Does It Work?
This appendix provides additional material to explain in more detail how certain key concepts and processes discussed within the main body of the book actually work.
IIS and ASP.NET Processing
Note
The information in this section applies to Internet Information Services (IIS) 5, running on Windows 2000.
ASP.NET Web applications and Web services are processed by code that executes in a single instance of the ASP.NET worker process (aspnet_wp.exe), although on multi-processor computers, you can configure multiple instances, one per processor.
IIS authenticates callers and creates a Windows access token for the caller. If anonymous access is enabled within IIS, then a Windows access token for the anonymous Internet user account ...
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