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Loading a file from the browser, without a web server

So I need to load a file from disk somehow, and access its contents.. Sort of like how <link rel="stylesheet"> works. Is there a way to do this? XHR requires a web server.. and using something like the above doesn't let me access the contents of the file.. ...

How to establish secure connection between java application and database?

In an interview, Interview asked me an question : The communication between our application and the remote database must be done with https (more secure). How could you do it? I didn't find any clue for this question in google also. How to establish secure connection between java application and database? Please help me. ...

Why does the web page I fetch with Perl look odd?

I have a Perl script to open this page http://svejo.net/popular/all/new/ and filter the names of the posts but except headers everything seems encrypted. Nothing can be read. When I open the same page in a browser everything looks fine including the source code. How is it possible to encrypt a page for a script and not for a browser? My ...

Preserving case in HTTP headers with Ruby's Net:HTTP

Although the HTTP spec says that headers are case insensitive; Paypal, with their new adaptive payments API require their headers to be case-sensitive. Using the paypal adaptive payments extension for ActiveMerchant (http://github.com/lamp/paypal_adaptive_gateway) it seems that although the headers are set in all caps, they are sent in ...

Reading HTTP server push streams with Python

I'm playing around trying to write a client for a site which provides data as an HTTP stream (aka HTTP server push). However, urllib2.urlopen() grabs the stream in its current state and then closes the connection. I tried skipping urllib2 and using httplib directly, but this seems to have the same behaviour. The request is a POST reques...

Create a simple HTTP server with Java?

What's the easiest way to create a simple HTTP server with Java? Are there any libraries in commons to facilitate this? I only need to respond to GET/POST, and I can't use an application server. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? ...

Django: HttpResponseRedirect doesnt pass RequestContext()?

Basically, I'm trying to redirect people who aren't logged in to the login page. What I'm currently using is: return render_to_response('login.html', context_instance=RequestContext(request)) But that leaves the url at the homepage. I'd like to have it redirect to /accounts/login/, but when I use return HttpResponseRedirect('/accoun...

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 ...

How do I post a single file to an asp.net webform from windows forms?

How do I post a single file to an asp.net webform from c# windows forms? ...

PHP page load seems to be requesting itself and misinterpreting the result

I'm working on a messy PHP page by another developer and I was analyzing the resource view in the Webkit developer tools and noticed that the page (index.php) makes an HTTP requests for itself and then interprets the results as an image despite it being sent with the text/html header. Because of this it throws the warning: Resource i...

Get http status in Qt WebKit

Hello all: What I would like to implement is 1 Using Qt's WebView(part of QtWebKit) to access some page. 2 Show specified html page if got HTTP 4xx, 5xx status (Ex> HTTP 404, 500). 3 Also shows specified page when network connection is unavailable. For now, I had only done job 1... In job 2, how did I get http status from WebView ?...

Various way to send data to the web server

Client Environment : Windows XP , Internet connection Available, PHP Not installed. Server Environment : CentOS , Internet connection Available, PHP , MYsql installed. Data are stored in files at client machine , suggest better ways to send data fetched from the file to the server. Normally i would be using HTTP request using Curl to s...

Setting Http Headers in blackberry application

I have set the header as c.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US"); in BB app and i am reading it on server as Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"). But i am getting a null value. What may be wrong? ...

301 versus inline rewrites

I'm in the process of adding 'pretty' URLs to an existing CMS, the menu is auto generated and the new 'pretty' URLs are to be handled independently as a seperate module. The auto-generated menu allways has URLs that look like this index.php?menu_id=n which ofcourse we would like to see as eg. /news or /products I'm currently at the poin...

Should I allow sending complete structures when using PUT for updates in a REST API or not?

I am designing a REST API and I wonder what the recommended way to handle updates to resources would be. More specifically, I would allow updates through a PUT on the resource, but what should I allow in the body of the PUT request? Always the complete structure of the resource? Always the subpart (that changed) of the structure of the...

AJAX HTTP protocol response problem with custom server

I've started to add HTTP support to a custom C# non-webserver application which seems to work fine from Firefox/IE/Chrome when typing in the URL directly to the browser - where I can see a returned text string in the page from my application. The problem is when I try do the same from a HTTPRequest in JavaScript on a web page I don't ge...

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...

How to ignore query parameters in web cache?

Google Analytics use some query parameters to identify campaigns and to do cookie control. This is all handled by javascript code. Take a look at the following example: http://www.example.com/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_ter m=October%2B2008&utm_campaign=promotion This will set cookies via JavaScript with the ri...

Communicating with remote server in Android

Hi, As part of the college mini-project, I am developing a micro-blogging platform for Android. I am planning to use Django framework in python to handle the communication between Android and remote server so as to make database API independent. I heard its best practice to use HTTP methods for the communication. Which is the best site/...

Are there any tool for monitoring HTTP response?

Are there any tool for monitoring HTTP responses? so open such tool up. give it URL. And it goes to it and brings you back not only body of http response but all http response. ...