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google buzz api error

I am trying to post some content to my google buzz account using google buzz api. I tried using their sample code that they have provided ,but it give the below error Array ( [http_code] => 401 [headers] => Array ( [WWW-Authenticate] => AuthSub realm="https://www.google.com/accounts/AuthSubRequest" allowed-...

Read POST request parameters properly in PHP for request more than 1450 B?

I receive POST request on my api.php script. The content red using this code: $fp = fopen('php://stdin', 'r'); $all = ""; while($line = fgets($fp, 4096)) { $all .= $line; } echo $all; looks like this: ------------V2ymHFg03ehbqgZCaKO6jy Content-Disposition: form-data; name="intro" O ------------V2ymHF...

Json and Flickr API

Hi, I've gone through the http://css-tricks.com/examples/BuildYourSocialPage/ which is great, but I just want to customise the amount of Flickr images it pulls in(6) with the API. I know I could set a div with overflow:hidden to show the desired amount, but I don't want the code to be hacky. Can anyone help? Also I'd like to displa...

Access the SharePoint API as a named user from an ASP.Net web application using Anonymous Access

Here's the scenario: We have an external SharePoint instance with anonymous access turned on. We want the document libraries open to the public. We do not want custom lists open. That was simple enough to configure. Now we want to use those lists to create an attractive external ASP.Net web application. This web site will need anony...

Building a simple RESTful api

I'm wanting to make an API quickly, following REST principles - for a simple web application I've built. The first place the API will be used is to interface with an iPhone app. The API only needs handle a few basic calls, but all require authentication, nothing is public data. login/authenticate user get list of records in users group...

C API design: Who should allocate?

What is the proper/preferred way to allocate memory in a C API? I can see, at first, two options: 1) Let the caller do all the (outer) memory handling: myStruct *s = malloc(sizeof(s)); myStruct_init(s); myStruct_foo(s); myStruct_destroy(s); free(s); The _init and _destroy functions are necessary since some more memory may be alloc...

How do I get a list of the reports available on a reporting services instance

I'm trying to enumerate, in c#, the reports for a user on reporting services. How do I do this? Is there a web services call I should use, or should I just get the html returned from http://localhost/ReportServer/lists.asmx and pull that apart? The second option sounds like a bit of a hack. Surely theres a better way? ...

Send document with default e-mail client

For example, when you click a link in your web browser, it automatically opens default e-mail client installed on your PC and fills that e-mail address in. I need to perform similar operation, but with file attachment. It will look like "Send file with default e-mail client" option in the software interface. Is there any API available f...

How to centralize Windows Exception dialogs in Delphi?

I'm trying to center all message dialogs, including any exception dialogs on the parent form rather than having them always appear in the center of the screen. I'm using Delphi 7 i note that using MessageDlgPos allows the params of X an Y to locate the dialog on screen, and thats fine for any messages i wish to display to the user. Bu...

online map locator api like GPS

Hi, google map, ip location etc etc working good. but none of service pointing our computer exactly where we are in map anyone know any api which locate our computer on map without user inputs. or any api service there . since im tired of ip location its not at all exact pointing some where in the earth and ma client scolding a lot ...

Remove .xml extension from ActiveResource request

Hi, I am trying to use ActiveResource to consume xml data from a third party API. I can use the RESTClient app to successfully authenticate and make requests. I coded my app and when I make a request I get a 404 error. I added: ActiveResource::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDERR) to my development.rb file and figured out the problem. Th...

Facebook API Common Friends

Is it possible to get common friends using a Facebook API (the intersect of two friends lists)? For example if you use the Facebook graph API you can do something like https:..//graph.facebook.com/me/friends but if you do https:..//graph.facebook.com/220439/friends there is a privacy error... But if you can see the same informati...

MediaMetadataRetriever.java on android unpublished API through Reflection

I'm interested in accessing this class: http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git;a=blob;f=media/java/android/media/MediaMetadataRetriever.java;h=681751b4d15115ffceb2c1d812b5d0f68b11a5ab;hb=HEAD It is android unpublished API but is it a problem if I access it through reflection or it could lead to issues ? ...

How do I send in a REST request (to use an API)?

I'm writing a small web app for myself in Rails and I want it to use Last.fm's API. I'm incredibly new to web development in general, so I'm not sure where to even begin. http://www.last.fm/api/rest I'm not asking for a step-by-step tutorial or anything like that, but a nudge in the right direction would be awesome. Or even just a litt...

How is Java inheritance being used to enforce program requirements?

I was looking at a blog about good API design link text In one of the example sections titled 'Reinventing the Socket', it showed a design of how to enforce certain rules and prerequisite on the client code that uses it. eg. the client must call bind() before it can call connect(), and it must be connected before it's allowed to send() ...

What's the lowest level Windows function(s) to play sound?

What's the lowest level Windows function(s) to play sound? (The function(s) that are called by any other functions that play sound). For example, fopen() calls CreateFileA(), and CreateFileA() calls CreateFileW(), and CreateFileW() calls NtCreateFile(), etc. I want to know what's the lowest-level one for sound (without comunicating with...

Resharper API... Uh... where is it?

Ok I must be having a blonde moment, but for the life of me I can't find where to download the resherper API, to use with the project I got from Here: http://devlicio.us/blogs/hadi_hariri/archive/2010/01/12/writing-plug-ins-for-resharper-part-1-of-undefined.aspx Any help or links would be greatly appreciated. Cal- ...

Recommendation on web language for building API set for application like friend-feed

I'm working on an idea for a website like friendfeed and need inputs on how to deverlop an API set. The module for tracking changes isnt a problem and has been build using system calls (so language-neutral). (a)What language should i use to build this API-framework for developers? Primarily this service is intended for developers, NOT...

Is a Protocol based on an existing Protocol still a Protocol?

I am developing an open "protocol" for dynamic ridesharing services using mobile phones. It is based on XML-RPC and uses marshalled objects as parameters (quite like Soap). Every entity and operation will be heavily documented in the draft. As example, look at this first skeleton of a documented Prefs object to be used in the Protocol....

Adding members to a C-style struct and backwards compatibility

Say I have a struct defined somewhere deep in low-level code used all over the place in the most crazy and unknown ways: struct T { unsigned short name_len; char d_name[LENGTH]; } With accompanying functions that fill d_name with whatever needs to be put there, like struct T* fill( somethingOrOther* X) And I would like to e...