UrlScan and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria)

In an ongoing series on different reasons that I suck, I wanted to share another interesting quasi-debugging story about this public ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) service I'm trying to help get live at a large company. I'd mentioned how I had some trouble with UrlScan and Astoria Services in my post on " RTFLF - Read the Expletive Log File ." UrlScan 3.1 is a security tool that restricts the types of HTTP requests that IIS will process. By blocking specific HTTP requests, the UrlScan 3.1 security tool helps to prevent potentially harmful requests from reaching applications on the server. UrlScan 3.1 is an update to UrlScan 2.5 supports IIS 5.1, IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. UrlScan is a really...(read more) ...