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MS Posting Acceptor

Microsoft® Posting Acceptor is a server add-on tool that Web content providers can use to publish their content using HTTP Post (RFC 1867). After installing Posting Acceptor on your Web server running Windows NT® Server, Windows NT Workstation, or Windows® 95, you will be able to provide a hosting service for users wanting to post Web content to your server. Resources are provided to assist with Posting Acceptor installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.

What Posting Acceptor Does

Posting Acceptor allows Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS), Microsoft Peer Web Services, and Microsoft Personal Web Server to accept Web content from Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard/API and Netscape Navigator 2.02 or later through any standard HTTP connection. In conjunction with Microsoft Content Replication System (CRS), Posting Acceptor can also distribute content to multiple servers simultaneously.

How It Works

Posting Acceptor provides a receiver for Microsoft IIS to accept files from clients using the HTTP multipart/form-data method to post their Web content. Clients using this posting method include the Web Publishing Wizard/API 1.5 Microsoft ActiveX™ Upload control and Netscape Navigator 2.02 or later. Posting Acceptor can also provide the same functionality to a cluster of servers with content managed through CRS supporting the Web Publishing Wizard/API 1.5 client. In this way, Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard/API and any HTTP Post–compliant clients, can post content through a standard firewall.

For example, suppose an Internet service provider (ISP) decides to host Web pages for its users. The ISP simply installs Posting Acceptor on its Web server and creates a virtual directory called "users." Users are then able to post their content to the server and retrieve it from a URL such as https://servername/users/username. A graphic representation of these relationships is provided in the following illustration.

Conventions

The following text formats are used throughout this document.