MBS: Billing Filter Does Not Function Correctly with Internet Explorer Version 3.02
Article ID: 169212
Article Last Modified on 11/21/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Commercial Internet System 1.0 Service Pack 2
- Microsoft Membership Server
This article was previously published under Q169212
SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.02 clients accessing a document that
has a charge associated with it are not presented with Prompt.htm (Pay-To-
View URL) after they are successfully authenticated against Distributed
Password Authentication (DPA). Instead they are taken directly to the
document and no billing event is generated.
CAUSE
The billing download filter (Billfltr.dll) is failing to successfully call
Prompt.htm after a billable content page is selected by the user.
Beginning with version 3.02 of Internet Explorer, special characters within
URLs are converted to their ISO character set hexadecimal values. The
billing filter can not interpret this value and subsequently fails to
recognize an attempt to access billable content.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Commercial
Internet System version 1.0. This problem has been corrected in the
latest U.S. Service Pack for Microsoft Commercial Internet System
version 1.0. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query
on the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
183062 MCIS 1.0 Service Packs 1 and 2 Information
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