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IIS May Stop Responding after Processing Several Client Queries

Article ID: 155058

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0

This article was previously published under Q155058

SYMPTOMS

Internet Information Server (IIS) may stop responding after processing several Universal Resource Locator (URL) requests for an .htm file with additional relational operators as in the following example:

http://www.server.com/default.htm/...and so on...

CAUSE

IIS enters an infinite loop trying to service URL requests for .htm files with additional relational operators. This behavior would eventually result in several server pool threads in infinite loops taking CPU cycles and causing IIS to stop responding.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in IIS versions 1.0 and 1.0c. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

   S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodiis

Keywords: kbnetwork KB155058