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WinInet suitable for server-side use?

Subject:WinInet suitable for server-side use?
Posted by:"George V. Reilly" (george.v.reil..@gmail.com)
Date:5 Dec 2005 11:14:07

I know that in the NT4/IIS 4 timeframe, WinInet was not considered
suitable for server-side use. Invoking WinInet from ASP caused all
kinds of problems with concurrency and performance. (Or something like
that. It's been quite a while.) This was the impetus for WinHttp.

I need to download a lot of files over FTP in a C# web service, from a
number of different FTP servers simultaneously. I have a C# wrapper for
WinInet FTP functions. Is this the way to go?

I'm using .NET 1.1, so I can't use the FtpWebRequest class of .NET 2.0.
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/George V. Reilly, Seattle, WA

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