WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol

WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol - general properties

The WMS HTTP Server Control Protocol plug-in is used to control Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) streaming from your server. You can configure the following options for this plug-in.

Item	Description
IP addresses	Settings in this area define how the control protocol can use IP addresses on your server.
Allow all IP addresses to use this protocol	Select this option to allow all of the IP addresses on your server to use HTTP when streaming content.
Allow selected IP addresses to use this protocol	Select this option to allow only those IP addresses you select in the IP address list to use HTTP when streaming content. This option is useful if you have created multiple IP addresses on your server.
Port selection	Settings in the area define the port used by the control protocol.
Use default port	Select this option to use the default HTTP streaming port 80.
Use other port	Select this option to specify a different port to use with HTTP streaming, and then type the port you want to use in the space provided.

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Changes made to this plug-in are applied to new client connection requests only. Clients that are already connected to the server are not affected.
Attempting to use Windows Media Services and a Web service such as Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) concurrently on a server can cause conflicts because both services attempt to bind to port 80 by default. You can avoid port conflicts by assigning Windows Media Services to a different port or by creating additional IP addresses so that each service can use port 80 on a separate IP address. For more information, see To add IP addresses to resolve port 80 conflicts.
If a server control protocol plug-in is enabled on a Windows Media server with multiple network interface cards, you can prevent IP addresses from using a certain protocol by selecting those addresses in Allow selected IP addresses to use this protocol. If you select Allow selected IP addresses to use this protocol but don't select any of the IP addresses listed, all IP addresses will be allowed to use the protocol. If you do not want to allow any of the IP addresses to use the protocol, you should disable the server control protocol plug-in.
Windows Media Services is Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) enabled. IPv6 is the newest version of the Internet Protocol and was designed to accommodate the rapidly increasing demand for unique IP addresses. IPv6 increases the IP address size from 32 bits to 128 bits to support more levels of addressing hierarchy and a greater number of addressable nodes. Not all networks are configured to use IPv6, but Windows Media Services will automatically use it when it is available. For more information about IPv6, refer to the IPv6 page at the Microsoft Web site.