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Re: Webdav over SSL; IIS 7.5; Files larger than ~7.5MB

From: Oscar Koeroo <okoeroo_at_nikhef.nl>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:01:40 +0100

On 14-01-13 15:37, Chris Knight wrote:
> Thanks for the follow-up.
>
> I think our implementation will not really suffer from this security issue
> as we are mainly using ssl to protect the data from middle man sniffers as
> the server is not going to be used for anything other than the client that
> I am creating.
>
> Personally I prefer avoiding Windows all together however unfortunately my
> hands are tied as most people seem to be interested in using a microsoft
> based server. I tried to compromise by suggesting apache for windows but
> the system admin folks were more excited about IIS.

(obviously off-topic):

Have a look at the available IIS patches. It might be available for your
server version (guessing on MS Windows 2008 R2). It also helps in the
mitigation if you don't have dynamic client side content being served.

cheers.

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Received on 2013-01-14