autodiscovery

IE7 missing Atom feed autodiscovery

I've been showing a website to a customer who insists on using IE and found out, to my surprise, that IE7 does not autodiscover the Atom newsfeed. The feed is linked to within the HEAD element of a valid HTML 4.01 Strict page with <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="atom.xml" title="Atom 1.0">, the link is pointing t...

Detecting hosts connected to a lan

In order to create a lan messenger in c# I need to detect the host computers online obviously using the same lan messenger software. I tried searching for a starting point to do so, but in vain. I need to know how to start the work. ...

Auto detect internal/external development environment

We use the following function to auto detect if we are on a machine internally or on a live server and then choose the appropriate configs for various components: function devIsLocal(){ $res=false; $http_host=$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; if($http_host=='localhost')$res=true; if($http_host=='127.0.0.1')$res=true; if(subs...

getting autodiscover URL from Exchange email address

I'm starting with an address for an Exchange 2007 server: [email protected] And I attempted to send an autodiscover request, as documented at MSDN. I attempted to use the generic autodiscover address documented at the TechNet White Paper. So, using curl on PHP, I sent the following request: <Autodiscover xmlns="http:...

How can I make a .Net 4.0 Exe ask the user to download .Net 4.0 framework / redistributable before running this exe?

I thought that latest Matlab does this automatically. I have tested the following exe on a clean Win XP VM: namespace DotNetTest { using System.Windows.Forms; class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { MessageBox.Show("Howdy!"); } } } When I run it on a computer which has all...

How do I dynamically discover packages from a partial namespace in perl?

I have a directory structure that looks like: Foo::Bar::Baz::1 Foo::Bar::Baz::2 etc Can I list the packages from something like: use Foo::Bar::Baz; Thanks! Edit: Made it more clear what the modules are. ...

How to make RSS feed as auto discoverable in asp.Net

In my asp.net 3.5 C# application I had RSS feed in some of my web pages.I am using SyndicationItem object to prepare RSS feed and using using System.ServiceModel.Syndication dll to prepare RSS page. I want them to be auto discoverable i.e The RSS feed button in IE at the browser level should get highlighted when we go to the page with R...

how to broadcast/multicast a service over the network for clients to discover without any need for server IP

how to broadcast/multicast a service over the network for clients to discover without any need for server IP? how to let other clients discover the service from a server, without the client requiring the IP address of the server, similar to DHCP IP acquiring. broadcast? multicast? how do i implement the same in ruby or any other langua...