From: "Paul Ranson" 

Since NT3.51 there's been a 'TransmitFile' API for Windows Sockets that is
supposed to enhance performance by directly using the file system's buffers
to drive the network send. The new HTTP implementation would appear to
extend this. I doubt they're doing more than sending files in kernel mode,
but I expect that even with complex sites most Web server traffic is
actually simple file transfer.

Paul

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> It's more secure from what I've read. (my own opinion from the technical
> descriptions I've seen of some of the changes)
>
> Geo.
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3e6baeaf{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Do you know what they've put into kernel mode?
> >
> > Do you have any reason to suppose it would be less secure or reliable
than
> > existing file server components? IIRC NFS runs in the Unix kernel, I
don't
> > see why this is any less a reasonable performance choice.
> >
> > Paul
> >

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