is this a bug in IIS5.0 ?

From: Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] (louis@STEELBYTES.COM)
Date: 04/07/02 

Date:         Sun, 7 Apr 2002 20:00:20 +1000
From: "Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]" <louis@STEELBYTES.COM>
To: NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM

I would call this a bug in IIS.

setup:
1. disable socket pooling:
            cd c:\inetpub\adminscripts
            cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/disablesocketpooling true
2. setup a simple website using IIS5.0 (not yet tested with 5.1 or 4.0),
bound to 127.0.0.1:79, with a folder in it called test
3. use a port redirector to redirect the server_ip:80 to 127.0.0.1:79 (I
use PortTunnel from www.steelbytes.com)
4. use IE6 (not tested with anything else, but should happen with any
client) on a client PC to connect to http://server_ip:80/test

now, what happens, is the client sends the following
    GET http://server_ip/flamuko HTTP/1.1
    Host: server_ip
    ...

and IIS responds with
    HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
    Location: http://server_ip:79/test/
    ...
it has done this, because although there is no file called test, there is a
folder called test (if there was also no folder by that name, then it
returns a 404)

so the client then trys http://server_ip:79/test/
which is invalid. and even worse, it doesn't straight away fail, instead it
times out, which can take quite a while.

IIS should have responded with
    HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
    Location: http://server_ip/test/
    ...

if IIS had only changed the file/folder part of the url, and not the
host/port part of the url, then it would have given the correct result.

Louis Solomon
www.SteelBytes.com

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