KB180523 - Ifilttst.exe and Ifilttst.ini Files Missing from IFilter Documentation on January MSDN

Article ID: 180523

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0

This article was previously published under Q180523

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

SYMPTOMS

The January 1998 MSDN Library and Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) contains documentation on programming with the IFilter interface. The documentation mentions a tool that will verify an IFilter implementation. The tool consists of two files: Ifilttst.exe and Ifilttst.ini. These files were not included with the documentation.

RESOLUTION

You can get the missing files by downloading the IFilter SDK from the following location:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/indexsrv/ixufilt_9279.htm

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft Internet Information Server version 4.0.

MORE INFORMATION

Documentation on the IFilter interface test tool is located in the Platform SDK documentation at the following location:

Internet/Internet/Extranet Services
    Indexing Service
        Indexing Service Filter Implementation
            Filter Examples
                IFilter Test Suite

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