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Open a new tab in a browser with the response to an ASP request

It's a bit complicated this one... Lets say I have a listing of PDF files displayed in the user's browser. Each filename is a link pointing not to the file, but to an ASP page, say <--a href="viewfile.asp?file=somefile.pdf">somefile.pdf</a> I want viewfile.asp to fetch the file (I've done that bit OK) but I then want the file to ...

Launching an Applicatiion from an Iphone browser

Is it possible to doe one of the following? A/ (the preference) Launch an application on the iPhone from either the native browser of the recently released Opera browser? B/ Have a 'addon' or other 'module' for a either of the two iPhone browsers that acts like an application? ...

Is it possible to call WSDL method just by calling some url from browser?

Is it possible to call WSDL (bacikHTTPbinding) method just by calling some url from browser? ...

Is it possible to implement any kind of file upload recovery / resumption in a browser?

The project is a servlet to which people can upload files via, at present, HTTP POST. This is accompanied by Web page(s) providing a front-end to trigger the upload. We have more or less complete control over the servlet, and the Web pages, but don't want to impose any restrictions on the client beyond being a reasonably modern browser w...

What browsers' Back button doesn't generate request to server

I need to test my web application against a browser for which back button doesn't generate request to server. Could you give me examples of such browsers? ...

REST API unauthenticated requests exception based on the User-Agent

Hi All, I am developing a REST API that supports two kinds of authentication protocols: login form authentication - for browser based clients. Simple Basic authentication - for non-browser clients. I developed a flow in which unauthenticated requests redirected to the "login form", the problem is that this is an undesired behavior f...

3d city website. Morden technologies

Any ideas how to create 3d graphics in a web browser. I want to create a simle 3d model of my city. I know about google earth but I want my own website. Thanks in advance ...

2 iframes with the same display even if the src are different

Hi, I am using this code: <div class="infobox-pair"> <div class="ibp-left"> <iframe width="105" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="width: 311px; height: 105px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" name="infobox_flight" id="ibp-left-iframe" src="http://mywebpage.com/paris"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; </div> <div class="ibp-right...

Why do browsers allow switching off Javascript?

Am curious why modern browsers allow switching off Javascript. It's so clear now that to do any substantial modern web application you need to integrate some high level of Javascript, why cant javascript be made an integral part of the browser? It becomes even more annoying especially when this option is OFF by default (IE!!) My opini...

How to open a Browser popUp window from Actionscript ( Flash )?

How to open a Browser popUp window from Actionscript ( Flash )? ( Any Code sample would be wary appreciated ) ...

Why do firefox/chrome show a different page than IE8?

When I look at this published Google Docs document, I see the latest version with Firefox and Chrome, but an older version with IE8. Also, screen-scraping it via PHP/Curl gives me an older version. I've tried CTRL-Refresh in IE8 but I can't get it to show me the newest version. No matter what headers I try to change in PHP/Curl, I can...

How to automate IE/Firefox to download some files from a https: website with Javascript links?

Some of my users download several pdf files from an internet website regularly. They'd like to automate the process to save a few minutes every day, and most importantly, to minimize errors. I tried mechanize but failed as mechanize does not process javascripts. Since the download links in the remote site are all triggered by javescript...

How can I refresh the browser page from within a Silverlight app?

Is there a way to reload the browser page from within Silverlight? i.e. have the same effect as a user clicking the reload button? ...

My web page is not detecting user's preferred language set in web browser.

I'm testing the code by changing an option in Firefox's options: "Options -> Choose your preferred language for displaying pages" This is the code: lang.php: <?php function dlang($Var) { if(empty($GLOBALS[$Var])) { $GLOBALS[$Var]=(!empty($GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]))? $GLOBALS['_SERVER'][$Var]: (!emp...

Is there a way to determine if an iPhone / iPad app is installed?

Looking for code that would run in a browser (Safari) to determine if a certain iphone app was installed on a users device (iphone, ipad or ipod touch). The end goal is dynamically display messaging on a site to instruct the user to go install the app. ...

How long will a browser remember a "a:visited" link?

How long will a browser remember a "a:visited" link? Assuming the method isn't uniform across browsers - an answer for any individual browser (or as many as you know) would be helpful. Also, under which type of memory is it stored? "Web History"? Cache? ...

How to switch default browser for debug asp.net in vs2008\vs2010?

Since system install the default browser was opera but suddenly become IE in both 2008 and 2010 versions. Default browser in my system is opera. How I can switch make Opera default for debug again? ...

How can I see a specific page's memory consumption of a browser ?

Hi, What way or which profiler tool I should use to see a specific web page's memory consumption? Does it make a difference if it belongs to a TAB in an individual browser window? Thanks ...

Memory leak in Mozilla when unloading stylesheets

I'm working with Mozilla v1.7.12 on a constrained device (a Motorola set-top box) trying to resolve some memory leaks. When I dynamically load a stylesheet which refers to some large images, I can see that the amount of consumed memory increases in correspondance with the size of the images. This is what I would expect. Then, when I re...

Override browser "Find" feature

I'm wondering whether it's possible to use JavaScript to intercept or prevent the user from using the browser's "Find" feature to find text on the page. (Trust me, I have a good reason!) I'm guessing the answer is "no," beyond the obvious intercepting Cmd/Ctrl+F. A second-best solution would be to intercept the text highlighting that th...