How can I deploy my ready website?
I have well developed an ASP.NET website with SQL Server 2000. How can I drop it on a server? ...
web-applications
ASP.NET How expensive is it to call an Application Variable many times?
The short of it is: Is it costly to check an Application Variable such as Application("WebAppName") more 10-20 times each time a page loads? Background: (feel free to critique) Some includes in my site contain many links and images which cannot use relative urls due to their inclusion in different paths. Hence these includes contain ...
ASP.NET: Managing Users and Roles (CMS, Portal, etc?)
Hello, I am not sure how to phrase a good question, so I will just say what I am after! I have to retool a web application for our vendors and part of that requires restricting content on a vendor by vendor basis. Looking at ASP.NET (MVC) this seems easy enough using the built in Authorization Filters and the IPrincipal and IIdentity ...
To use OpenID or not to use!?
Hello there, I'm new to this site but I've read the rules and also searched the questions section but not found any related question answered well. anyway, the question: what's the Pros. & Cons. of using OpenID on a website instead of a regular login system? My customer wants me to use this kind of logins for a local sale system & I ha...
Any Ideas for free API to post very small sound snippets to Web?
Twitter provides a free API to post small text messages to the Web. TwitPic provides a free API to post small pictures to the Web. Is there anything for sounds, these sounds would be small less than 12 seconds, and could be saved to needed format. It would be great if the API would work well with Twitter, but not required. If there is...
iPhone web app startup screen
I'm working on an iPhone web app where I'm using the "apple-mobile-web-app-capable" meta tag to get "full screen mode". When I lauch the app it shows a picture of the page where I left of the last time while it loads. It looks like the app is ready to receive input when it is not, and that's confusing. Is it possible to change the defa...
Guidelines for accepting email messages as input to application
A number of applications have the handy feature of allowing users to respond to notification emails from the application. The responses are slurped back into the application. For example, if you were building a customer support system the email would likely contain some token to link the response back to the correct service ticket. Wh...
File Upload of more than 4GB
Hi, I wish to create an ASP.NET web application that allows upload of files up to a size of 4GB. How can I achieve that? I would prefer something like a "Download" manager where I can resume, pause etc... Is that possible? If so, where should I start? I think asp.net has a limit of 4mb upload or something? I am not too sure.. Plea...
Adding a simple MAC to url parameters ?
I want to add a simple kind of MAC to some of my URL parameters. This is only intended as an additional line of defense against application bugs and caching related problems/bugs, and not intended as any form of replacement of the actual login security in the application. A given business-object-id is already protected by backends to be ...
How to implement REST in a web-aplication?
Hi, i want to know how i could be implement REST in my web aplication. I want to create a web aplication based in this service, but i don't know how to do it. Now, i'm using J2EE and Tomcat. What things should be considered for these technologies? EDIT: Sorry, i mean RESTful service. ...
Correlation between requests per second and response time?
Can someone please explain the correlation between requests per second and response time? Which are you trying to improve at first? If your competitor offers less 'requests per second' on his most used functionality then you, is your application performing better in terms of end-user performance? ...
Updating a Web Application in IIS - Best practices
What are the best practices for updating a web application in IIS? The first page you see when you visit our application is a login page. What I want to achieve is that visitors be redirected to a page stating that the application is being updated. And for users with an admin role being able to login successfully (to check whether ever...
Why restrict the length of a password?
I've just signed up to a site to purchase some goods, and when I tried to enter my (reasonably secure) password I was informed it was too long, and that I should enter a password between 5 & 10 characters! What is the point in that? Who makes decisions like this? Surely the ideal password would be a really long and complicated one? Why d...
Should there be a limit to concurrent number of sessions for a web application?
What do you all think? ...
Persisting state of an asp.net page
Am new to asp.net Here is what I need to do: I've an asp.net page called Results.aspx which has got 8 AJAX collapsible panels and a gridview control binded to database.It also has pagination functionality. From this page, user can navigate to other pages in the application.When he comes back to Results.aspx,I need to persist states of ...
How many requests per second does your webapp serve?
I'am interested in some data gathering about requests per second (the definition of requests per second i use is 'a user requests a certain functionality provided by an URL' (this means requests != hits (one request may consist of multiple hits))). So how many requests per second and server do you serve? If you dont maintain your own app...
How do I share user controls between web applications in ASP.NET?
This question is a follow up to my question about sharing resources between web applications, because I have not yet found a good solution. I have a web application with user controls and resources that are shared by three other web applications. Solution | +-CommonControlsWebApp | +- resources | | +- images | | +- scripts | | +- s...
CakePHP Email Does Not Send on Mosso Cloud Sites
I have uploaded a working Cakephp web application to Mosso Cloud Sites hosting. The application is working fine except that emails are no longer being delivered. The site is an exact copy from my previous host, where sending email was working correctly. The app uses the built in Cakephp email component. I have searched Mosso's knowledgeb...
What are all the portlet classes in Spring mvc?
In Spring MVC there seem to be two parallel class hierarchies, one with portlet, one without. What is that? Why is it so and what should I use. ...
How do I force a browser window to always be on top and in focus
Is there a way to force a browser window to always be on top and in focus? I am working on a project that I need to have the browser window on top and in focus all the time except when closing the browser window. I have tried a few things through javascript, but have not had any success keeping the window in focus. I am not trying t...