web-applications

web based FTP help needed

I am looking for a web based FTP client for our clients that is password protected, they can upload & download files. Each client must have a user/pass to login into their folders. Any reccomendation of open source would be very much appreciated ...

Converting urls into lowercase?

Is there any straightforward to convert all incoming urls to lowercase before they get matched against urlpatterns in run_wsgi_app(webapp.WSGIApplication(urlpatterns))? ...

Launching an online app: do I use CDN, Amazon Services or a dedicated server?

My web application requires as little lag as possible. I have tried hosting it on a dedicated server, but users on the other side of world have complained about latency issues. So I am considering using CDN or Amazon services.... would either help resolve this? The application uses a lot of AJAX, so latency can be an issue. ...

What is a lightweight, fast, java servlet container?

I have been writing a pure java web server specifically customized for a website I'm making. I've grown tired of reinventing the wheel though, and am now investigating moving over to java servlets. Basically I just want to run server side java code while leveraging the servlet technology to avoid writing http protocol specific code. I...

How can we tell what language/technology was used to render an HTML document?

In general, a web application can render any HTML it likes. Therefore, in theory, any language could render identical HTML output. However, there are some ways we can try to deduce what is running server-side. For instance, file extensions are usually a dead giveaway (although they could technically be faked). Due to my experience with ...

What do you mean by thin-client application?

What do you mean by thin-client application? ...

Web application programming using objective-c?

Just say you have a quite large and complicated desktop application written in objective-c/cocoa written properly in MVC. You then wish to replace the V and C so that it is a web application? Is there anything like Tomcat but for objective c? The closest thing I can think of is somehow convert the Model code into an apache module to lo...

howtodeploy dotnetnuke webapplication in webserver

Hi, I created one dotnetnuke web application and also i worked with the database aslo, now i want to deploy in my webserver as a portal. How to deploy the dotnetnuke web application in my web server, I want the steps how to deploy the dnn application.. ...

Should I care about HTML 5?

Should I care about HTML 5 for my web application ... and why? Or to put it another way, what are some of HTML5 new features that I should be aware of? ...

Browser download complete event

We've been looking for a while for an answer to this, but haven't found a solution. We have a web server, which allows the user to download files (pdfs), which are dynamically-generated and served from servlets. We'd like to know when a download has completed (and how: was it successful, did it fail, did the user cancel?). Is there a...

Sort string collection in Python using various locale settings

I want to sort list of strings with respect to user language preference. I have a multilanguage Python webapp and what is the correct way to sort strings such way? I know I can set up locale, like this: import locale locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') But this should be done on application start (and doc says it is not thread-safe!...

web programming language benchmarks?

I'm thinking that as more and more programming moves to the web with similar and a variety of tools and techniques, has anyone come up with a good set of benchmarks for a programming language? I'm thinking server-side languages, like Java, PHP, ASP.net, and C# are the big ones. Though it could be anything like C or perl, I don't want t...

How to reference file resource in a JSF Application

Hey there, I want to dynamically reference an XSD from a bean, how is this possible? I already added the XSD to the project, so it's located somewhere in the GlassFish domain. Any thoughts will be appreciated! Daniel Szalay ...

Can someone recomend me a simple tool for stress testing of web apps (with a popup windows support)

I have a relatively simple ASP.NET application which I need to stress test (e.g. run it in a simulated environment of 20 concurrent users). Even though app is relatively simple there a few places where it brings up a popup window with one button on it. When user clicks that button - a response return some text back to the pop up window....

How do I get parameter from URL or hidden field

In a Struts Action, I want to get a parameter from the URL or from a hidden field, when the parameter in the URL is not set. To retrieve the parameter from the URL is as follows: String userId = request.getParameter("userId"); But the problem is now, the HTML is based on forms (legacy code). And I observerd that the parameter userId m...

What are the implications of deleting a user account?

Most of the websites I've used in the past (including this one) do not offer an option to delete your own account. I think the main reason is to avoid the orphanage of the items created (or the delete on cascade of those items). Modern sites (like this one) have a place where those items go when an account is abandoned (in the case of ...

Totally custom logins in google app engine

Can I use the login:required feature of app.yaml when I create a totally google separate user login? How? (Google App Engine) ...

C#: Unit testing classes of web application...

I'm working on a web server application that handles requests received from mobile phones. I have request adapters which adapts requests from the phone in request classes I use in the rest of the app. What every request adapter does is that it accesses one object in a session and changes one of its properties. Now, the question: I want t...

Namespace problem

I'm working on an ASP.NET web application with .NET 3.5 and have run into the following problem: I'm working with a class under the namespace X.Web.Controls.Core which references the class Utils in the namespace X.X2.components.util. I get an error that Utils is already defined in the namespace X.Web.Controls.Utils This should not be p...

Dependencies on external (web) services

I'm currently involved in a project where we are developing a large website that relies heavily on an external service (for some functionality) developed by another company. The external service occasionally breaks and doesn't provide us with the data that we need. This is a major problem for us since the requirements on "our" website ar...