I just want a light HTTP stack. Something similar to WinInet or WinHTTP, with cookie support, etc. Are there any good alternatives to those? Seems like I find a bug or limitation in either one that I end up hung up on. ...
Hi, I'm creating a bulletin board system, and now I'm implementing a 'delete topic' feature for admins. If someone opens the deleted topic, the server cannot find it, so it must be 404. On the other hand, the topic has existed sometime, so I must use 410. Implementing the 410 would require a new table called deleted_topics, and so would...
Hey all! So, basically what I'm trying to do is a hockey pool application, and there are a ton of ways I should be able to filter to view the data. For example, filter by free agent, goals, assists, position, etc. I'm planning on doing this with a bunch of query strings, but I'm not sure what the best approach would be to pass along t...
Hi, How can I ensure that if I am doing a HTTP file upload (e.g. say to update an existing file from v1 in my web application to v2) that it acts transactionally? That is in this case assume my web application has v1 of the file, but as part of the admin interface I can update this file. If whilst uploading v2 there is an issue with t...
I would like to know what the definitive (?) answer is for how to do things other then POST/GET from a browser - either a HTML form or Ajax, as I hear mixed reports on what browsers allow what (specifically on the ajax side). When building a back end in RESTful style it is nice to use proper verbs like PUT, HEAD, OPTIONS etc... in rail...
Hi, How do I manually create nested POST parameters for a http web request? I have a .NET C# client for which I'm creating a HTTP request to a Rails page. Everything is fine so far, however I've noted that the parameters I'm creating for the request (key/value pairs) are expected to be nested. I'm actually also having a hard time try...
Is there an easy way to fetch a file using an HTTP URL with Progress ABL 10.1B without external dependencies? If so, what is the most elegant way of doing so? I tried the documentation, but didn't seem to contain anything like that. ...
OK, I'm having a problem settings up SVN+SSH. I have SVN running on a Linux server and trying to connect from a Mac laptop running Snow Leopard. XCode tries to connect, but gives the message "Error 210002, network connection closed unexpectedly." Nothing online seems to explain. I connect using xcode with HTTP and it works correctly ...
Is there a site online available to the general public that does nothing but display whatever form variables (name-value pairs) were sent to it via POST? Yes, it's very simple and I have already made one myself, the question is to see if there is something generally available in case my box is down or I am working with someone else and ...
How do you configure Flex Builder to run basic flex projects over http (http://localhost/MyProject.html)? I can't figure out how to use crossdomain.xml files when running locally via something like file:///Users/Me/Flex/MyProject... Running this on a Mac with Safari/FireFox. Thanks! ...
Is it possible to compress data being sent from the client's browser (a file upload) to the server? Flash, silverlight and other technology is ok! ...
Hi, Background - I'm trying to stream an existing webpage to a separate web application, using HttpWebRequest/HttpWebResponse in C#. One issue I'm striking is that I'm trying to set the file upload request content-length using the file download's content-length, HOWEVER the issue seems to be when the source webpage is on a webserver for...
I'm trying to use IIS7 to host a HTTP Live Streaming server. For those not familiar with HTTPLS: an audio or video stream is broken into small segments and made available on a web server. Along with the segments an index.m3u8 file is created which is a flat text file that lists segments currently available for download in the order in ...
HTTP 1.1 allows 2 connections per host name. On the other hand, yahoo performance rules suggest to reduce the number of DNS look ups. how does one balance this? thanks ...
Hello, I upload a file from a Nokia N97 phone to server, everything works fine but after file is uploaded I want to get response from server. The problem is that I get response only after half a minute or more. From what I see the code blocks in httpConnection.getResponseCode() waiting for response. I tested it on a Sony Ericsson and I...
Why are there GET and POST requests in AJAX as it does not affect page URL anyway? What difference does it make by passing sensitive data over GET in AJAX as the data is not getting reflected to page URL? ...
Hi guys, I'm trying to upload a file and a send along a few parameters to my site using .NET / C#. Having read a few tutorials that do either a few parameters or a file, I've tried, unsuccessfully, to combine them. Here is how I try doing it: WebRequest req = WebRequest.Create(baseURL + "upload"); req.Credentials = new NetworkCredentia...
Hi, I am trying to tweak HttpUnit 1.7.2 to run under GAE, and stumbled accross the URLStreamHandler error. As HttpUnit uses URLStreamHandler to process javascript and https, removing URLStreamHandler means I can only access plain html website. How do I use GAE UrlFetch service to replace URLStreamHandler ? ...
(See this question in ServerFault) I have a Java client that uses Socket to open concurrent connections to the same machine. I am witnessing a phenomenon where one request completes extremely fast, but the others see a delay of 100-3000 milliseconds. Packet inspection using Wireshark shows all SYN packets beyond the first wait a long ti...
There is any WCF binding that accepts the data in a HTTP query string? ...