INFO: List of Issues Fixed in Microsoft XML 3.0 Service Pack 2 (Part 3 of 4)

This article is part 3 of 4 in the series of articles documenting the bugs fixed in MSXML 3.0 Service Pack 2 (MSXML 3.0 SP2).


For additional information, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

BUG: ServerXMLHTTP does not resend cookies when the cookies have Expires or Domain properties set

ServerXMLHTTP does not resend cookies when the cookies have Expires or Domain properties set because the date tokens are not being parsed properly in the WinHTTP layer.

BUG: ServerXMLHTTP send method sporadically fails with error 0x80072efd while requests are sent to same server

When you use ServerXMLHTTP to send multiple requests (one at a time) to the same host, the method may start failing randomly and you may receive the following error message: The problem is related to resolving the Domain Name System (DNS) server host names.

BUG: "Access is denied" error message when HTTPS requests are made with ServerXMLHTTP

For more information on this bug, see the following Knowledge Base article:

BUG: URLs cannot be converted into different code page by using the setOption method of ServerXMLHTTP

The setOption method does not convert the code page of the URL strings. For example, the following Active Server Pages (ASP) code sample attempts to convert the code page to GB2312 (936), but the page is sent as UTF-8:

BUG: ServerXMLHTTP setOption(1, true) does not work when the URL has special characters

Setting the SXH_OPTION_ESCAPE_PERCENT_IN_URL option to True by using the setOption method should allow the percent (%) character to be escaped. However, when this option is set and the URL string contains a percent (%) symbol, you may receive the following error message: Steps to Reproduce Behavior:

1. Save and install the following page as Server.asp under the default Web application:

   <%
   	Response.Write Request.QueryString
   %>
   					

2. Save the following script as Client.js and test it:

   var sxh = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP.3.0");
   sxh.setOption(1, true);
   sxh.open("GET", "http://localhost/server.asp?hello%world", false);
   sxh.send();
   WScript.Echo(sxh.responseText);