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How The Business Partners Page Works

Functional Overview

This section of the Exploration Air sample site demonstrates the use of the Microsoft Posting Acceptor.

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.

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, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later and Netscape Navigator 2.02 or later through any standard HTTP connection.

The user selects one or more files to upload and then selects the Upload option. The file is sent to IIS which in turn writes the file to the appropriate location on the hard disk. By default this is based off HTTP://Server/IISSamples/ExAir/BusinessPartners/Upload/yyyyy where yyyyy is the name of the uploading company.

If the client has a client authentication certificate then the Subject Common Name is used for yyyyy, otherwise the HTTP logon name is used.

Components Used

The Posting Acceptor is the core of this business function.

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.