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Is there a packet sniffer for Windows Mobile?

I'm looking for a tool along the lines of Fiddler, or better yet Wireshark, that would run on a Windows Mobile 6.1 device. I have an app which calls some webservices on one of our servers, and I want to make sure it it going out to the proper address. Thanks in advance. ...

How can I upload data using ftp, http, or a socket from a spreadsheet with VBA for Microsoft Office?

I have an Excel spreadsheet, and I want to put a button on it, so users will be able to upload their data to an http/ftp server, or send the data to the server using a socket directly. I have noticed that some people creates an ftp script to do. First of all, I'm not sure that everybody has ftp on their Windows machine, and secondly, I w...

Caching images with different query strings (S3 signed urls)

I'm trying to figure out if I can get browsers to cache images with signed urls. What I want is to generate a new signed url for every request (same image, but with an updated signature), but have the browser not re-download it every time. So, assuming the cache-related headers are set correctly, and all of the URL is the same except f...

post commit hook fail

I have Master/Slave setup using Win2k8R with SVN 1.6.9 and using TortoiseSVN 1.6.7. The access is through Apache and using http. Everything works but when I commit I get the following message: Error: post-commit hook failed (exit code 1) with output: Error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. ...

X-Cache Header Explanation

I was going through the firefox local cache folder and found a lot of files containing the X-cache header. Can someone explain the purpose of this header ? thanks ...

SMTP to HTTP Post service

I am looking for a SMTP to HTTP Post service. I have tried smtp2web.com but although I can register and set up forwarding, emails bounce. Any ideas suggestions for an alternative service or current experience of using this one? ...

IE sending through multiple unrequested requests for parent URL

We have a rather large/complex web site (so it's not easy to extract portions of it). The problem we're having is that IE6/7/8 (but 6 is the worst) are sending through multiple requests for the parent of a URL (which fails, a different point). As an example, if you visited (dummy domain name obviously): http://www.example.com/view/eve...

OData / WCF Data Service - HTTP 500 Error

I have created an OData/WCF service using Visual Studio 2010 on Windows XP SP3 with all current patches installed. When I click on "view in browser", the service opens and I see the 3 tables from my EF model. However, when I add a table name ("Commands" in this case) to the end of the query string, rather than seeing the data from the...

Should I stop redirecting after successful POST or PUT requests?

It seems common in the Rails community, at least, to respond to successful POST, PUT or DELETE requests by redirecting instead of returning success. For instance, if I PUT a legal change to my user profile, the idiomatic response would be a 302 Redirect to the profile page. Isn't this wrong? Shouldn't we be returning 200 OK from the req...

Need help implementing an Android service that does http long polling

I've seen persistent TCP connections implemented (http://devtcg.blogspot.com/2009/01/push-services-implementing-persistent.html), but my needs are a little different. I need an Android service that always runs in the background and keeps a long polling connection to an HTTP server and communicates with it using JSON over POST method. D...

Parsing every part of an HTTP header field-value

Hi all. I'm parsing HTTP data directly from packets (either TCP reconstructed or not, you can assume it is). I'm looking for the best way to parse HTTP as accurately as possible. The main issue here is the HTTP header. Looking at the basic RFC of HTTP/1.1, it seems that HTTP header parsing would be complex. The RFC describes very com...

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient stuck on request

Hi All I have that code : while(!lastPage && currentPage < maxPageSize){ StringBuilder request = new StringBuilder("http://catalog.bizrate.com/services/catalog/v1/us/" + " some more ..."); currentPage++; HttpClient client = new HttpClient(new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager()); cli...

PHP - getting content of the POST request

I have problem with getting the content. I don't know the names of the post variables so I can't do this using = $_Post['name'] because I don't know the "name". I want to catch all of the variables send by POST method. How can I get keys of the $_Post[] array and the values related with them? ...

hidden post parameter , php curl

I'm trying to replicate the browser post parameters on http://www.ebayclassifieds.com/m/PostAd?scrid=3465450-2253858851033189948 but for some reasons I can't find where the values for 2 of them are comming from . The parameters are btn-previwe-ad.x and btn-previwe-ad.y but I can't find such as parameters in the html source itself o...

Reading large Binary files fails in Rebol

The following Rebol code fails due to an out of memory error: read/binary http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu-releases/lucid/ ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso How can I use Rebol to read large binary files over HTTP? ...

Is there an up to date list of all common content types returned from web servers?

For intance, text/html, audio/mpeg, etc? Can I safely assume that anything that is text based will actually have text/??? as its content type in the header when the server returns the document? ...

HTTP basic authentication via URL doesn't work with Firefox?

Normally you can login to sites that require HTTP basic authentication by passing the username and password in the URL, e.g.: http://myusername:[email protected]/mypath On my Linux machine, I could access this website without problems with my Konqueror browser as well as with my Opera browser. But with Firefox it doesn't wor...

which header do i need to send to browser when responding with flash file

hello all i build ed simple single threaded web server that i embedded to my application in Qt c++ this server are responding fine with simple html pages , but when i try to response with flash file embedded inside the html all the html string just got printed to the browser my question is what headers and http responses do i need to una...

redirect_to custom http header

Hi, On my current project, custom http header variable need to be set while redirecting for http basic auth. Can I instruct redirect_to for custom headers ? Thanks. ...

How to test an HTTP 301 redirect?

How can one easily test HTTP return codes, like, say, a 301 redirect? For example, if I want to "see what's going on", I can use telnet to do something like this: ... $ telnet nytimes.com 80 Trying 199.239.136.200... Connected to nytimes.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 (enter) (enter) HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Sun-...