Why hello SOers. My question today is about authentication endpoints and the architecture surrounding them. Most web frameworks and applications I've encountered seem to have a single URL or endpoint to deal with 'authentication' - e.g. processing authentication tokens such as usernames and passwords, and doing something with them. It ...
Hi, We are a small company and I'm ahead of the Web Department (as, it's only me) :) On my Web Applications I tend to use the Visual Studio 2k8 Deploy project and that output in the Web Setup Project. What this does is only create the Virtual Server and put the files there ... Done. I Want More! Create it's own Application Pool Get...
I'm creating a prototype for a java web application. Frontend is a Swing-based java applet. Backend should be a type of web-service, that is called by applet. Backend should run inside a servlet container and should have its own security (username/password) database. I know, that Tomcat has its own user database (realm), but the app shou...
I want to create a web application that allows users to sign up, register a domain name and create their own website. This will be done in Ubuntu 9.10, Apache 2, Mysql 5 and Php 5. At the moment, the only area of development I'm uncertain about is the domain name registration and mapping it to the web application. I'm going to postpon...
Hi All, One of my URLs is for a tracking cookie. In the basic configuration, the pylons controller parses the query string, does a DB query, and sets the cookie accordingly. I want to move to nginx. I am wondering if this is possible: nginx fetches value of cookie from memcached nginx writes the headers and serves static file nginx r...
If I start typing stackov.. in Chrome I can see something like 'Press Tab to search stackoverflow.com'. SO is basically recognized as a Search Engine. Do you have any idea of how to implement the same sort of feature in our WebApp? I think it should be related with OpenSearch <link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescriptio...
Hi, I am investigating on a web framework/techno that allows to drag n drop files from the filesystem into a web application. The purpose is of course to upload those files into an application server. In Flex it seems to be not possible (although it works with AIR). I have found a way with Google Gears, but this force the user to insta...
Can anyone recommend a good, visually attractive PHP framework or application to rapidly create back office / admin interfaces to MySQL based applications. I generally have to build bespoke back office UIs for every PHP web based application I write and wondered if there is an easier way of quickly building a web front-end to MySQL data...
I have searched a lot about the difference between Website and WebApplication but didn't get a clear cut answer. Even I am more confused after reading about that. ...
I need some suggestions on how to start off with this one. My end goal is to make some visually striking wheel that can revolve a set of pictures and stop randomly at some picture and display some text in the center of the wheel. With the number of AJAX libraries out there, I am pretty sure someone must have done something similar. Does ...
Hi, The registered accounts in my web application (Created using struts2) gets a separate site like http://localhost/accountname And each account has its own login page. After registering, the users will get a separate site http://localhost/accountname I want to scan the request URL (in struts2) first and then forward that request ...
I have been dabbling in programming/scripting languages since I was a kid. I started off with HTML and CSS, then went on to PHP (which I got quite good at) and then to Python, Perl, and C(++). I've recently done a lot of work in PHP (along with MySQL). After spending so much time learning these languages, I now want to do something with...
For a contact management system web app that allows tennants to upload lists of contact records (having varying field structures) and then displays these back to multiple users (within tennant) one at a time is there a good p/saas database solution to handle this -it would need to allow uploading lists with custom fields (20K records per...
I want to read a file from a java web application. I don't want to give the absolute path of the file. I just want to put the file in some directory of my web application. Or It can be placed along with .war file (packaged web application). What relative path to give for the file. I tried ./filename.csv but it didn't work. ========Up...
i build dimdim v4.5 on my pc and its work fine with me. each time i want to start meeting i type my pc IP address like this : http://<my-ip-address>/dimdim i want to change the word dimdim to be anything else like : http://<my-ip-address>/meeting i try to change the fodler called dimdim to also there is file in /u...
I'm trying to figure out what would be causing a 1 minute delay in the startup of Jetty. Is it a configuration problem, my application, or something else? I have Jetty 7 (jetty-7.0.1.v20091125 25 November 2009) installed on a server and I deploy a 45MB ROOT.war file into the webapps directory. This is the only webapp configured in Jetty...
I'd like to know if it is possible to have unread dots on a icon of a iwebkit-based webapp. I've read this but its for native apps. Is it possible to simulate this with javascript or something? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610172/iphone-unread-counts-on-tabbar ...
Hey guys, Im working on promising project that develops a new social media app for web and mobile. We are at begin defining functionalities. Nevertheless, I'm thinking ahead on architecture. So I'm asking: 1 - Whats the best plataform to develop the core of this aplication that will have a Rest API interface. 2 - Whats the best databa...
I have seen a few sites now where if you highlight text of an article, copy it, and then paste in they can add more text to it. Try copying and pasting a section of text from an article at http://belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ and you'll see what I mean - they add a link to the original article in the pasted text. How is this done? I'm assum...
Hello Friends, there was a web application, that you could configure so that over the api, your app could post the error logs into that application. it was a paid service and the free version allowed you to do like 1 report a minute. if any of you remember this service, please post it as an answer. thank you :) ...