Has anyone noticed any additional performance overhead as a result of
using it? Also
What exactly does it protect you against? Cross-site scripting?

Thanks

Kola

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: 11 February 2003 14:34
>> To: CF-Server
>> Subject: RE: CFMX and URLScan - What is consensus?
>> 
>> At 09:05 11/02/2003, you wrote:
>> >What exactly does URLscan do?
>> 
>> see:
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/secur
i
>> ty/tools/tools/URLScan.asp
>> 
>> it's a http request filtering tool that runs as a high priority isapi
>> filter in IIS, blocking incoming requests that are considered "risky"
>> according to the settings in your urlscan.ini file.
>> 
>> Every IIS server should be running it, or something similar. We've
been
>> running it for over a year alongside CF5 without any problems and
>> upgraded
>> all our servers to version 2.5 a few months ago without a hitch. To
use
>> it
>> with CFMX you'll just need to ensure that you allow requests for
>> coldfusion
>> files (I haven't used CFMX, but doesn't it have a new .cfc extension
for
>> CFCs?). As far as I recall, the default config will allow requests
for
>> all
>> extensions that are not in the DenyExtensions list so it should work
"out
>> of the box" for CFMX as well as CF5.
>> 
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>>

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