Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Skype impact on ASP.NET!!!!

Moving to Windows 7, a couple of weird things happened, so (just in case you see them too) it turns out that the new Skype client (4.1) listens to http on port 80, as an alternative to its default port, and that's enough to prevent ASP.NET debugging your dev site. It's the kind of interaction between applications you'd never look for, and I'm hugely indebted to Martin Kulov - if you see the not terribly helpful "server committed a protocol violation" message, there's a very real chance if you kill the switch in Skype that lets it listen on 80 all will be well.

Also I suddenly discover I need to enable Windows authentication for VS2008-generated web sites - not sure whether that's fall out from the move to Windows 7 or not...

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