MBS: Billing Filter Does Not Function Correctly with Internet Explorer Version 3.02

• Microsoft Commercial Internet System version 1.0
• Microsoft Membership Server

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.02 clients accessing a document that has a charge associated with it are not presented with Prompt.htm (Pay-To- View URL) after they are successfully authenticated against Distributed Password Authentication (DPA). Instead they are taken directly to the document and no billing event is generated.

CAUSE

The billing download filter (Billfltr.dll) is failing to successfully call Prompt.htm after a billable content page is selected by the user.

Beginning with version 3.02 of Internet Explorer, special characters within URLs are converted to their ISO character set hexadecimal values. The billing filter can not interpret this value and subsequently fails to recognize an attempt to access billable content.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Commercial Internet System version 1.0. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Microsoft Commercial Internet System version 1.0. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q183062 MCIS 1.0 Service Packs 1 and 2 Information

Additional query words: mbs sp2 mcis

Keywords :
Version : winnt:1.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug