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MS IIS 5.0 has problems handling a specific form of URL ending with "ida". The extension ida has been taken from the Bugtraq posting "IIS revealing webdirectories" The problem causes 2 kind of results. The one result is that the server responds with a message like "URL String too long"; "Cannot find the specified path" The other error causes the server to terminate with an Access Violation. When the server "Access violates" it displays as last message.

MS IIS 5.0 has problems handling a specific form of URL ending with "ida". The extension ida has been taken from the Bugtraq posting "IIS revealing webdirectories" The problem causes 2 kind of results. The one result is that the server responds with a message like "URL String too long"; "Cannot find the specified path" The other error causes the server to terminate with an Access Violation. When the server "Access violates" it displays as last message.