Internet Information Services (IIS) 6 Resource Kit

Troubleshooting HTTP.sys Problems

HTTP.sys can provide information through three mechanisms: HTTP status codes, Windows Event Logs, and the HTTP error log. Preceding sections discussed the HTTP status codes and several event log errors that are related to logging. This section addresses the initial startup process of IP addresses binding and the mechanism other services use to ask HTTP to listen to specific URL endpoints through the HTTP API.

Configuring the IP Inclusion List

The HTTP.sys IP inclusion list allows administrators to limit the IP addresses to which HTTP.sys automatically binds when it starts. This provides functionality similar to the functionality provided by the DisableSocketPooling property that was available in IIS 5.0. At startup, ...