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ASP.NET : how to do just Server-side validation ?

what are the ways to do server-side validation in an asp.net web form? Using custom validator and it's serverValidate event? or what else? ...

multi server framework suggestion needed...

Example, I have 2 server, each server using a copy of linux cpanel. I first install free trial script into subfolder reside in Server A. eg: sample.com/service/username1 sample.com/service/username2 sample.com/service/username3 Then when people decided to upgrade, I gonna move all files to theirnewdomain.com, including database etc ...

C# Detecting server setup

I'm writing a program that deals with the logs generated by the clients server. How can I detect where the user is storing them? It feels invasive to search all files, but what if they're being stored outside of the root. Is this acceptable, what if I make the user click "detect" first? Regardless, what if they've been renamed and reform...

How to run arbitrary server software from Eclipse?

I am developing a Flex-based game, and struggling with SmartFox Server. Anyway, it's a java-based server for Flash platform games, and it's kind of clunky to develop with on Windows. So, I want to be able to start it (and stop it) via Eclipse rather than the current batch file nastiness they provide. The problem is I've never done th...

Data files storage approach on web servers.

My web application stores product information in XML files on disk, on the web server. This is perfectly fine when it comes to a few products, however I have my worries that large amounts of files may cause problems. So let's say I'm gonna have 20,000 products, that would mean having 20,000 XML files inside a directory. I'm not familiar...

A Record or Hosts File on a Windows 2003 DNS Server

I have a Windows 2003 DNS server that forwards on to OpenDNS. I want to set it up so that when someone requests dev.mydomain.com instead of requesting the IP from OpenDNS it returns a local IP address. The reason I want to do this is because I have a local dev server called dev locally and dev.mydomain externally. I'd like it if I'm in...

Server side alerts for client side app

Here's the scenario: User interacts with Adobe flex webpage to configure reports based on some data stored server side. They configure their view and have THAT view emailed to them daily. I've got the report builder, the part I'm trying to figure out is how to render the report server side and send it out as email (native flex functio...

Sending shell commands to a Linux server over the network

Is there a tool that will allow me to issue commands over the network without SSH? For example, I'd like to create a new linux box armed with DVD burners and send this command over the network "growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd -dvd-video dvd" with arguments and send the file to burn. The system would be automated so I need something th...

Expanding web service across multiple servers on same domain name

I have a web service that serves widgets. It is hosted on a server under server1.mydomain.com. (Linux, plesk, VPS) I would like to have more physical servers which will be accessed via server2.mydomain.com etc. Note that its actually the same domain name pointing to another physical server. This configuration also has to support SSL. ...

development smtp server for windows

Hi; I am looking for a free test smptp server which can save emails in to files for my development tests. Since my development environment is windows I prefer test email server to run on windows but I can consider to install any other linux based alternatives. ...

Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 With WSUS 3.1 SP2

Can I install MDM 2008 SP1 with WSUS 3.1 SP2? It fails telling me I need WSUS 3.0 SP1 or higher.. but since I have SP2 shouldn't it work? I'm installing on Server 2008 ...

Running a java "background application" in application server

My experience with application servers is limited to some basic servlet coding, so I am not even sure how to frame this question appropriately. I need to write a java program that runs on the (java) application server and continuously executes a certain method (it will check for files in a certain directory). I have found a way to sc...

What's a server equivalent of django.test.client to test external URL fetch?

I'd like to make sure a given view in my test is fetching an external URL properly. It uses urllib2 (but this shouldn't matter, since it's blackbox testing). Perhaps a temporary local server of some kind? Is there an app that does this already? (My Googling has failed me.) ...

setting up positioning server on symbian

Hello, Does anyone know how to set up the positioning server programmatically on Symbian S60 phones using Symbian C++. I'm trying to set up the Access point of the positioning server to get the GPS coordinates. Thanks in advance. Ravi ...

REST / JSON / XML-RPC / SOAP

Sorry for being the 100000th person to ask the same question. But I guess my case is slightly distinctive. The application is that we'd like to have an Android phone client on 3g and a light python web service server. The phone would do most of the work and do a lot of uploading, pictures, GPS, etc etc. The server just has to respond w...

Best authentication solution for RESTful Database Server

I'm writing a RESTful Database Server called Phoenix. Being an easy interface into an entire application's data, security is quite an important issue, and I'm interested in what authentication solutions any of you could suggest. It needs to be: Secure - it's got to be very hard to break. Signing requests could be a good way of doing t...

Session State Server and memory problems

We have an application that pulls back fairly large datatables and stores them in session (I know this is bad, i didnt design it this way). We are using the Session State Server and I have verfied that its working (the site relies heavily on session and I can work with it just fine). However, when we return a large datatable (~12MB), we ...

How to get the SSL certificate of a server running a web service from the client app? - C# .NET

Hello, I have a client program written in .NET 2.0, that connects to the web service. I used Visual Studio to generate a class derived from SoapHttpClientProtocol, every method was generated just fine, everything is working. But - the web service is running only through HTTPS, so I was just wondering, how could I get an X509Certificate...

Downloading images from a server iPhone SDK

I have created a program which allows me to upload images to my server. They are given a random file name when uploaded. I want to be able to download all the images from a folder on the server so I can display them in my application. The only example I have seen requires that I know the file name of the images which I don't. How could I...

What is base64 clear text username and password?

Recently I came across this word in a basic authentication article. What it meant by base64 clear text usrname and password on the network? Thanks ...