When using a HTTP binding in WCF, I need to grant myself special permissions to be able to bind to that port/path. I understand this is because WCF accepts HTTP traffic through the http.sys driver. In the olden days, we could new up a socket and bind to any old port that wasn't in use, without being an admin. NetTcpBinding is still abl...
I'm in need to include a PHP file that I can only reach with a complete HTTP address. I'm confused about this topic, I've heard it's a bad practice. How can I solve that? ...
I have a url containing the following: /somepath/morestuff/ohno%25foobar For some reason apache is reporting a 400 bad request (it has something to do with the %25). I am using mod_rewrite to rewrite the path to point to my codeigniter instance but it's not even getting to codeigniter, it's just the default apache error. Any ideas? ...
Hi all There is a web page from which I want to retrieve a certain string. In order to do so, I need to login, click some buttons, fill a text box, click another button - and then the string appears. How can I write a java program to do that automatically? Are there any useful libraries for that purpose? Thanks ...
Hey, I am using the following code to download a file from my server then write it to the root directory of the sd card, it all works fine: package com.downloader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import android.os.Environment; im...
Hi, I have a ruby-on-rails application and I'm now wondering why RoR uses Restful Requests: eg. if you want delete an ressource it's a best practice to do it with such an HTTP Request: DELETE /entry/13 you can also do it with with such an normal request: GET /entry/delete/13 or GET /entry/13/delete now my question: when i make a li...
Hi all, I am trying to implement a Apple HTTP Live Stream tool, which can take a video and audio sources as the input, and HTTP Live Stream as the out put. It can create multiple .ts files and also the m3u8 playlist. For some input files, it works. But for some other sources, the ipad can only play like 2 or 3 seconds media at the very ...
The Problem There's an item (foo.js) that rarely changes. I'd like this item to be stored in the browser's cache (using Expires header). However, when it does change, I'd like the browser to update to the newest version. The Attempt Foo.js is returned with a far future Expires header. It's cached on the browser and requires no round...
I was pointed to the service smtp2web a while back, but I've been trying it out and it doesn't seem to work. Are there any others out there? Any way to accomplish this in ruby? I write an email and send it to lanceJpollard@smtp2web and get this response immediately: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: lanceJp...
I have a Pylons app that I'm trying to set up using Apache and FCGI. The Pylons INI file has this in it: [server:main] use = egg:Flup#fcgi_thread host = 0.0.0.0 port = 40100 This used to work on an old CentOS server with Pylons 0.9.7, but now I'm trying to set it up on a new one, running Ubuntu 10.04 and Pylons 1.0. I can connect to t...
Using Httpconnection i want to send the login details as data with the request and once verified i need a xml file as a response which is used in my Blackberry device to display the details (I already implemented this and tested with an xml file) private void fetchPage(String url) { // Perform basic validation (set characters to lowerc...
When trying to send a POST request to an ASP.NET asmx web service I am seeing (in Charles and Firebug) it go through as a GET. Here is my AS3 public function save(page:SharedPageVO, callback :Function = null): void { var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest( "service.asmx/CreateSharedPage" ); req.data = page; req.method = URLReques...
I have some pretty basic data for a pie chart. Yes: 189.84 (57.03%) No: 252 (42.97%) Abstain: 0 (0%) When I request the google pie chart at this URL: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p&chs=400x200&chl=Yes%2042.97%|No%2057.03%|Abstain%200%&chd=t:189.84,252,0&chdl=189.84|252|0&chco=FF0000 ...It looks ...
Hi, I want to make a http request with android. is use this: void testHTTP() { HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); HttpUriRequest request = new HttpPost("http://www.google.com"); try { HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request); //System.out.println("response protocol version: " + response.getPro...
I'm playing around with the idea of using Git for deployment and updates of my web applications, but the problem is that by doing it the way I'm doing it, the .git directory (and therefore all my source code) would be accessible via HTTP. This is what is holding me back from really implementing this idea. How do I prevent HTTP access to...
Several of our users have asked us to include data relative to their account in the HTTP headers of requests we send them, or even responses they get from our API. What is the general convention to add custom HTTP headers, in terms of naming, format... etc. Also, feel free to post any smart usage of these that you stumbled upon on the w...
I would like to provide the appearance of DB for my web service without storing it into the DB as a cache or middleware. ...
I'm trying to interface with the Google Contact API, and in order to update a contact on the remote side, I need to use a PUT request instead of POST. Since the data I want to PUT is already in memory, I really don't want to deal with file pointers, which seems to be the default behavior of CURLOPT_READDATA. Thus, I understand I need to...
I am trying to use file_get_contents.I have made sure that allow_url_fopen is enabled in php.ini. As of now it is telling me: [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized All I'm doing is the following, which I can access through browser without a problem. $url=('http://site/@api...
Hello, When a user tries to access our website via a link (for instance going to www.website.com/privatepage) they are redirected to a login page. Once they login, we want to redirect them to that intended URL - how do you do this? Also we have a use case where a user logs in from the homepage, or goes directly to the login page with ...