Convert HTML to an image
Duplicate What is the best way to create a web page thumbnail? I want to display a thumbnail image of an HTML page. How can I do this? ...
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Call a web service from a Windows Application
I am new to .NET and C#. I created a Web service, and I am able to view it from a Web page. When I try to call it from a Windows Application, I get the Exception 401 : unauthorized. Code compiles OK, but throws exception when running. This is the code from the Windows App. : namespace BookStore { public partial class Form1 : Form ...
Determine SSL connection behind a load balancer
Hi all: Looking for best practice here. We deal with SSL connection at our load balancer level and hence all the connection from our load balancer to our web servers are http. With that we have no way of telling what kind of connection the client is making to our web server since all connection is through http. We currently have 2 so...
What are alternatives to SQL database storage for a web site?
An SQL database is overkill if your storage needs are small. When I was young and dumb, I used a text file and flock()ed it when I needed to access it. This doesn't scale, but I still feel that non-database solutions have been completely ignored in Web 2.0. Does anyone not use an SQL database for storage? What are the alternatives? ...
yui or yui3
Is YUI3 ready mature enough? What are its advantages and disadvantes vs YUI ...
Use server settings to force IE to open Word documents in Word and not in IE
I've been beating my head against the wall trying to figure out how I can force IE to download and open a Word document in Word instead of opening in Word window embedded inside of IE. Googling around, all I can find are instructions like this one http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/sharing/OpenDocInIE.html which show how to configure the se...
Distributable ASP.NET web server for a commercial product
Does anybody know of a commercially supported distributable web server that can host ASP.NET applications? I have a commercial server based application to which I want to add a web interface (sort of like a portal for clients.) I cannot expect that all of my customers will have, or want to run, IIS. Cassini seems a bit limited withou...
Java Web Starter AMI
I'm trying to follow the tutorial on http://ttlnews.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-up-amazon-ami-with-java-and.html but can't find the Java Web Starter AMI (ami-1c54b075) when searcing for AMI in the AWS console. Anyone now why this could be? It seems to be one of the most popular AMIs as well (see infobox on the right side), so seems stra...
SharePoint web parts - Can you embed one web part into another?
Can you embed one SharePoint web part into another? For example, a client wants a document library but also an ability to write an executive summary about that document using the rich text editor tool. Can this be done? ...
Locale instance in web service
How can I use instances of java.util.Locale as parameter or result in a webservice? My webservice uses Apache CXF. ...
Where can I find a web based svn admin app that does this...
I am looking for a web based svn admin that can use LDAP Users and Groups which can create repos add/modify hooks of a repo through the web interface. For example you have a LDAP group that has access to multiple repos. You can then have one user in the group that can be an admin of all users in the group. This admin can create intern...
htaccess redirect
This is what I'm trying to do with the htaccess: Force remove the www from the url Be able to use http://website.com/site/ to get to http://website.com/site.php, and force the last slash even if it's not added by the user. So if i write http://website.com/site it will be converted to http://website.com/site/ Also translate http://websi...
web performance test for video streaming
Hello everyone, I have some streamed video setup on IIS. And I want to find or write some tool to test the performance, such as max supported simultenaous users/connections, and I also want to test such performance under user activity like pause, rewind or forward. Any ideas? I am using Windows Server 2008 x64 + IIS 7.0 Media Pack to s...
YUI: customizing message browser shows when cancelling window close event
I have a YUI application. Under certain circumstances I want to alert the user before he closes the window. Therefore I capture the window close event and do onWindowClose: function(e) { if (...) { YAHOO.util.Event.preventDefault(e); } } The browser shows a standrd message: "Are you sure you want to navigate ...
Where can I find a good VCS written in PHP?
I have a web server which can run PHP and Ruby. I would like to know if there is a PHP program which can do version control of my code similar to SVN? I know there are already open source project hosting sites which provide this service already but I would like it to be installed on my own host. I don't have the access to this server t...
IE6 PNG transparency
How can I fix PNG transparency bug in IE6 for background image? ...
Cookies, HTTP GET, and Query Strings
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in re Doubleclick Inc. stated: "GET information is submitted as part of a Web site's address or "URL," in what is known as a "query string." For example, a request for a hypothetical online record store's selection of Bon Jovi albums might read: http://recordstore.hy...
What is the name for that thing that lets part of the URL be an argument?
For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/698627/ms-access-properties The number is part of the URL but is an argument to the web app as opposed to other options like: http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official where all the args come after the '?'. I have used the second form before and...
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...
access remote video from program
Hello everyone, I want to have a stress/performance testing for my content management site, especially for hosted streamed video part. I am using IIS to host the videos. More specifically, I am using the new Windows Server 2008 x64 and IIS 7.0. The confusion is, I plan to write code to start a lot of threads, and in each thread I wil...