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Eric B Stenson

Deepak Bansal

Henry L Sanders

Khawar Zuberi

Shivakumar Seetharaman

Arvind M Murching

Anish Desai

Rajesh Sundaram

Vasilios Karagounis

Eric D Deily

Emily Kruglick

George V Reilly

A method is provided for selectively loading a layered service provider (LSP). The method includes registering at least one category for an installed LSP and registering a list of permitted categories of LSPs for an installed application. The application is then loaded, and the list of permitted categories of LSPs for the installed application is read. The installed LSP is loaded only if the at least one category is included in the list of permitted categories of LSPs.

Selective exclusion of LSPs on a per-packet basis

A web server system is provided which includes a web garden made up of a plurality of instances of a user-mode web application. The web server includes a kernel-mode listener service that is configured to receive web requests and selectively provide the TCP/IP connections to selected instances of the user-mode web application. It does this by establishing a plurality of request queues corresponding to the number of instances of the web application logic. The web server also includes a user-mode administrative process that is configured to selectively start each of the instances of the web application and maintain the size of the resulting web garden, for example, based on a defined maximum web garden size parameter.

Web garden application pools having a plurality of user-mode web applications

A namespace management module utilizes a persistent reservation store that associates URI namespaces with one or more permissions. The reservation store can contain a number of reservation entries that each include a URI identifying a URI namespace and a corresponding Access Control List ('ACLs') that includes permissions for the identified URI namespace. When a request to register a URI namespace is received, the permissions of an appropriate ACL can be checked to determine if the registration is approved. When a resource request is received, permissions of the ACLs can also be checked to determine if the resource request should be routed to a registered process. Preemptive wildcards can be included in aggregated URIs to identify aggregated URI namespaces. Aggregated URIs can be included in registration requests to override the registration of unauthorized processes.

Securing uniform resource identifier namespaces

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Eric B Stenson