Without developers managing the Boa web server, its known vulnerabilities could allow attackers to silently gain access to networks by collecting information from files," Microsoft said.

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works.

Like any web server, when a remote user accesses a webpage, IIS will log the request to log files that contain the timestamp, source IP addresses, the requested URL, HTTP status codes, and more.