If you have migrated or upgraded the sites on which you host your CA CRLs and delta CRLs to IIS 7, you may have noticed a (rather frustrating when you're experiencing it) new behavior. IIS 7 will, by default, reject requests containing double escape characters (for example, files containing a "+" sign...

First, the warnings: 1. Sometimes I am a bit of a salmon, meaning that I have a tendency to swim upstream, metaphorically speaking. More specifically, I like to take current thoughts around "best practices" and pick them apart to see if they actually make sense as a best practice. One of my favorite...