Does all HTTP traffic go through HTTP.SYS on Windows?

Question

I know Microsoft created HTTP.SYS to increase the performance of IIS. My question though is does HTTP.SYS handle HTTP traffic for all apps? What about a JVM for instanc

Answer 1

Winsock is socket level, below HTTP, so I would not think it goes through Http.Sys.

Internet Explorer uses Wininet for HTTP communication, which at up through Vista did not use Http.sys.

edit I think the book "Windows Internals" will answer your question.