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Q233335: Page Contents Visible When Certain Characters are at End of URL

Article: Q233335
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): winnt:3.0,4.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbWinNT4sp6fix
Last Modified: 08-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Server versions 3.0, 4.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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If certain characters are present at the end of a URL, the contents of the page
pointed to by the URL are returned to the browser. If the URL points to an ASP
page, the contents of the ASP script file are returned to the browser instead of
the processed results of the ASP page. This problem occurs on Simplified
Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Pan Chinese, Japanese, and Korean versions of IIS
4.0, and the English version of IIS 4.0 if a Far East language pack is installed
and set as the system default locale from the Regional Settings in Control
panel.


RESOLUTION
==========

For Internet Information Server 4.0:

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0
service pack. For additional information, please see the following article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack


For your convenience, this fix is also available from the following Internet
location as Fesrci.exe (x86) and Fesrca.exe (Alpha) for IIS 4.0 and Fesrc3i.exe
(x86) and Fesrc3a.exe (Alpha) for IIS 3.0:

NOTE: The IIS 4.0 fixes were updated on July 7, 1999 so that the fix will install
on computers running Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5.

- English

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/usa/security/fesrc-fix/

- German

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/ger/security/fesrc-fix/

- Japanese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/jpn/security/fesrc-fix

- Korean

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/kor/security/fesrc-fix/

- Simplified Chinese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/chs/security/fesrc-fix/

- Traditional Chinese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/cht/security/fesrc-fix/


For Internet Information Server 3.0:

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows NT 4.0
service pack. For additional information, please see the following article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q152734 How to Obtain the Latest Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack


For your convenience, this fix is also available from the following Internet
location as Fesrci.exe (x86) and Fesrca.exe (Alpha) for IIS 4.0 and Fesrc3i.exe
(x86) and Fesrc3a.exe (Alpha) for IIS 3.0:

NOTE: The IIS 3.0 version requires Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 5.

- English

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/usa/security/fesrc-fix/

- Japanese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/jpn/security/fesrc-fix

- Korean

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/kor/security/fesrc-fix/

- Pan-Chinese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/chp/security/fesrc-fix/

- Simplified Chinese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/chs/security/fesrc-fix/

- Traditional Chinese

  ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/iis/iis-public/fixes/cht/security/fesrc-fix/


STATUS
======

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Internet Information Server
versions 3.0 and 4.0. This problem was first corrected in Windows NT 4.0 Service
Pack 6a.

Additional query words: iisscript asp

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Keywords          : kbWinNT4sp6fix 
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbiis400 kbiis300
Version           : winnt:3.0,4.0
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbbug
Solution Type     : kbfix

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