March 2008
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
24h 25m
English
The Web server extensibility model provides a foundation for IIS 7.0’s modular architecture, enabling the low-footprint, low attack surface area, as well as highly specialized Web server deployments. All of this is possible because built-in IIS 7.0 features are implemented as pluggable modules on top of the same extensibility APIs that are exposed to third-party modules and are configured and managed with the same configuration and management tools.
Logically, a module is a Web server component that takes part in the processing of some or all requests and typically provides a service that can involve anything from supporting specific authentication methods (such as the Windows Authentication module) ...
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