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Jquery uploadify http error #408

Hi every one, ive been struggling with uploadify. on some pages it outputs 408 error message. The oncomplete is never called and checking the modsec_log i get this modsec_debug.log:[09/Jul/2010:01:02:04 --0500] [www.veepiz.com/sid#118091f0][rid#1202cbe8][/pupload.php][1] Exec: Execution failed while reading output: /usr/bin/modsec-clams...

Fake HTTP Get Requests

Hello all i have noticed certain sites which allows limited hit per IP so can i programatically make them feel that requests are not coming from the same IP , well i am not much sure abot HTTP packet, but can we specify it in header or somewhere to make them fool here is the code for GET Request public static String sendGe...

How to set value for HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR manually?

I read somewhere they said that HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR is not a trusted variables when you want to log the user's IP because they can change that. Is it real? And how? Thanks a lot! ...

Pagination techniques for search results from large forms

When creating search forms in web pages, I generally use the GET method. This allow the results to be URI Addressable. It also makes for easy pagination of results in the standard manner. But what about a form with a large number of options and fairly long field names? Using a GET request means that the URL of the results page can actua...

Can't grab progress on http POST file upload (Android)

I am developing an Android app which enables the user to upload a file to services like Twitpic and others. The POST upload is done without any external libraries and works just fine. My only problem is, that I can't grab any progress because all the uploading is done when I receive the response, not while writing the bytes into the outp...

Parse Raw HTTP in Python

I am looking for a library or function call in python or an associated library that would let me feed in a raw stream of text data representing an HTTP req/res and that would spit out that information is some sort of meaningful form like a dictionary or list. I do not want to use some built in class or create a bunch of new objects, in m...

How to send an array with Net::HTTP.post_form()?

There are some checkboxes in a form, so the post data is: type: flowers color[]: red color[]: white color[]: blue My code is: Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse("http://xxx"), { :type=>'flowers', 'color[]'=>%w[red white blue] }) It seems there is something wrong with my code, that I can't g...

IE 6 and chunked encoding problem

I'm experiencing the issue documented here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914453 You access Web applications or Web sites from a Web server that uses chunked transfer encoding on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based or on a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer. Then, the browser or the Web applications stop responding....

Http headers in Javascript ?

Hello, Is it possible to gather the HTTP headers in Javascript ? This is just a thought of mine after using Firebug for days In one of the posts I came to know that, it is impossible to find the HTTP headers in Javascript, whereas in firebug, we can see the response headers ( client side ) so my doubt is can we cache the HTTP hea...

Fine Grained rest HTTP verbs browser support

Is there any data regarding how browsers actually support rest http verbs (especially PUT, DELETE). This question is mostly motivated by the fact that many sources (such as this stackoverflow answer) inform that most browsers don't suport PUT and DELETE but don't say which. Rails solves this using a patch on the client, and reversing th...

httpclient timeouts? can's seem to get them to stick

Here is the code I'm using to create my multithreaded httpclient object. I'm trying to have a 4 second timeout across the board so if nothing happens for 4 seconds to drop the requests. I'm seeing really long execution times on some requests like in the 300 second range. I can't seem to figure out why that's happening. Any ideas? HttpPa...

How to duplicate a post http request with files without curl?

I want to duplicate a HTTP POST request from a form which includes file elements, as if there were just 2 action attributes with different targets on the form element. So far I have not been able to do this successfully with cURL for one reason or another, so I'm looking for alternatives (that don't use the cURL library what-so-ever, t...

Sinatra HTTP 'PUT' method

Something's wrong with the PUT action here, the form gets processed but the updated field is not being saved. I've did what Sinatra users are doing, by adding in "_method" for Sinatra to recognise that's its a HTTP PUT action. Could anyone spot any mistake here? # edit get '/entries/*/:id/edit' do @entry = Entries.get(params[:id]) ...

HTTP Record/Playback alternatives to Eclipse+Solex

Hey All, I have been playing with Solex, http://solex.sourceforge.net/ ... quite a cool Eclipse plugin that allows you to record and playback HTTP traffic, make assertions, request-time header mods based on variables pulled from prior requests (via regexp, XPath). All in all, quite impressed; However, I can not see any method for runti...

Reading binary file from URLConnection

I'm trying to read a binary file from a URLConnection. When I test it with a text file it seems to work fine but for binary files it doesn't. I'm using the following mime-type on the server when the file is send out: application/octet-stream But so far nothing seems to work. This is the code that I use to receive the file: file = Fil...

Screen resolution

Hello, how can I replace screen resolution when accessing some site from script? Is it possible to acces such data when own script connects to the server? ...

Why is PHP interfering with my HTML5 MP4 video?

I'm writing a web app that serves H.264 encoded MP4 video. In Chrome and Safari, it does this via an HTML5 video tag. In order to control access to these videos, their contents are served via PHP using a really simply mechanism: header('Content-type: video/mp4'); readfile($filename); exit; No matter what I do, the videos will not str...

Python library for HTTP support - including Content-Encoding

I have a scraper, which queries different websites. Some of them varyingly use Content-Encoding. And since I'm trying to simulate an AJAX query and need to mimic Mozilla, I need full support. There are multiple HTTP libraries for Python, but neither seems complete: httplib seems pretty low level, more like a HTTP packet sniffer really. ...

Problem with $_FILES and cURL

I'm having some trouble sending $_FILES by cURL - the files get transferred alright using the following code, however it is impossible for me to get the name, and type of the file, in fact once the $_FILES reach their destination their type is stored as "application/octet-stream" - what am I doing wrong!? $count=count($_FILES['thefile...

Rails REST API design question

I am designing a REST api for one of my applications & considering using RoR for the same and had a few questions that I was wondering if Rails can support before I can decide on RoR - 1) does rails support setting HTTP response code status. So I want something like this if customer_save_fail response.status_code = 500 end 2) in rai...