Microsoft KB Archive/311470

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IIS 5.0 Does Not Correctly Process Escape Characters in a URI

Article ID: 311470

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0



This article was previously published under Q311470

SYMPTOMS

When Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0 receives a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that includes an embedded special character that is formatted as an escape character, IIS may not process the URI correctly. For example, instead of processing the escape character "%2b" as a plus sign (+), IIS may process the escape character "%2b" as an argument separator.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Windows 2000.

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post more information in this article when the information becomes available.

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