Thursday, April 14, 2011

About ASP.NET


How we implement Web farm and Web Garden concept in ASP.NET?.
A web farm is a multi-server scenario. So we may have a server in each state of US. If the load on one server is in excess then the other servers step in to bear the brunt.
How they bear it is based on various models.
1. RoundRobin. (All servers share load equally)
2. NLB (economical)
3. HLB (expensive but can scale up to 8192 servers)
4. Hybrid (of 2 and 3).
5. CLB (Component load balancer).
A web garden is a multi-processor setup. i.e. a single server (not like the multi server above).
How to implement webfarms in .Net:
Go to web.config and
Here for mode you have 4 options.
a) Say mode inproc (non web farm but fast when you have very few customers).
b) Say mode StateServer (for webfarm)
c) Say mode SqlServer (for webfarm)
Whether to use option b or c depends on situation. StateServer is faster but SqlServer is more reliable and used for mission critical applications.
How to use webgardens in .Net:
Go to web.config and
Change the false to true. You have one more attribute that is related to webgarden in the same tag called cpuMask.
Is there any limit for query string? means what is the maximum size?..
Servers should be cautious about depending on URI lengths above 255 bytes because some older client or proxy implementations may not properly support these lengths.
Query string length depends on browser compatability

IE supports upto 255
Firefox supports upto 4000
What is the exact purpose of http handlers?
ASP.NET maps HTTP requests to HttpHandlers. Each HttpHandler enables processing of individual HTTP URLs or groups of URL extensions within an application. HttpHandlers have the same functionality as ISAPI extensions with a much simpler programming model
Ex
1.Default HttpHandler for all ASP.NET pages ->ASP.NET Page Handler (*.aspx)
2.Default HttpHandler for all ASP.NET service pages->ASP.NET Service Handler (*.asmx)
An HttpHandler can be either synchronous or asynchronous. A synchronous handler does not return until it finishes processing the HTTP request for which it is called. An asynchronous handler usually launches a process that can be lengthy and returns before that process finishes
After writing and compiling the code to implement an HttpHandler you must register the handler using your application's Web.config file.

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