Using IIS Programmatic Administration. Extending IIS 5.x and IIS6 with Managed Filters - The Code Proje. Introduction From an early start, extending IIS using ISAPI Filters has always been a job for the C/C++ gurus or low-level code oriented developers. With the arrival of ASP.NET, Microsoft has offered a new view on "extending" IIS, and I double-quote the term, because HttpModules are a contained and protected extension solution to the ASP.NET world.
While HTTP modules allow you to intercept requests and extend the processing pipeline of ASP.NET, they only affect requests targeting the ASP.NET framework. These ISAPI Filters, and similar ISAPI Extensions (and Wildcard ISAPI Extensions in IIS 6.0) are the available extension slots to IIS as a Web Server. It would be great to be able to build them in .NET too, right? I'll try to give a basic view of a new .NET framework - Filter.NET - to extend IIS via ISAPI Filters built in .NET. What About IIS7? IIS7 is Microsoft's unified view of a web server extendible and managable using the .NET framework. However, all of this applies to IIS7 only. Enjoy! Filter.NET Framework - Home. Creating a Self-Signed Certificate using OpenSSL for use with Mi. Dylan Beattie, January 2003 Overview This document describes how to sign your own SSL certificate requests using the OpenSSL toolkit and use these self-signed certificates to allow HTTPS connections to Microsoft's IIS 5 web server (as supplied with Windows 2000).
If you know what a self-signed certificate is and understand the concept of a certificate authority, great. If not, this should still work but you'll have no idea what you've acheived when it does :) Command transcripts are shown in monospaced type, with the bits you type shown in bold. Bits in italics are comments to explain what's going on and what you should be doing. Disclaimer I'm by no means a security expert, and I'm not an OpenSSL guru. These instructions were tested using OpenSSL 0.9.6g (v1.0 Final) on Windows 2000 Server running Service Pack 3.
Ingredients Windows 2000 running Internet Information Services (IIS)The OpenSSL tools for Windows from Shining Light Productions. Walkthrough Install and configure the OpenSSL toolkit. Configuring SSL Host Headers (IIS 6.0)