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How to implement a single sign-on authentication server?

Hi all, I want to implement a discrete remote authentication server that handles login for many sites. Somewhat similar to OpenID. Basically, I have site-1 and site-2 and they're both reliant on the same user database, which is on a separate auth-site. So, auth-site handles user authentication for them, and during this process, makes i...

Postgres or MySQL For Web Applications?

Duplicate: MySQL vs PostgreSQL for Web Applications Do you recommend PostgreSQL over MySQL? How different is PostgreSQL to MySQL? I've been toying with PostgreSQL for about a week, and, while I like it, I can't figure out what the specific advantages of PostrgreSQL over MySQL (using InnoDB) are. There seem to be a lot of features,...

uses undefined struct compile error - C

The compiler doesn't know where stat.h is? Error: c:\Projects\ADC_HCI\mongoose.c(745) : error C2079: 'st' uses undefined struct '_stat64' #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> static int mg_stat(const char *path, struct mgstat *stp) { struct _stat64 st; //<-- ERROR int ok; wchar_t wbuf[FILENAME_MAX]; to_uni...

Freelance web development: who pays for hosting?

I've never bid on any freelance jobs on GetACoder, eLance, oDesk etc. I've only done sites for friends and family so I've setup the hosting and have performed any updates that we needed after the initial design myself. I know it probably varies from job-to-job, but what is the typical arrangement for hosting and subsequent maintenance ...

What is the latest in Website Design

What is the latest in web design (not programming), w.r.t jquery, css, placement of links, usage of footer and header for a social multiuser website ...

SharePoint Integration for Single-sign On

Let me preface this with I am an experienced .NET developer--but I have not yet worked with SharePoint, so this question relates directly to SharePoint and its features. I'm working on a project that requires integration with SharePoint to the extent that a user can click some kind of redirect link that would allow them to authenticaate...

How do I do webtesting in Perl for pages that require JavaScript?

I have found these two modules that purport to be able to puppet string browsers, but I have no experience with them, but my current test suite uses WWW::Mechanize. Does anybody have any information about these modules, or other methods of testing pages from Perl that require JavaScript? To clarify, I am running my tests under Linux (U...

Magic Apache redirecting for /~username

Hi, I have inherited a webserver already serving some websites. I am trying to migrate some of those sites to a new webserver. One of those websites has a page called: http://mydomain/ABCDepartment/ This URL also works: http://mydomain/~joesmith and the index page for joesmith actually lives in /var/www.../ABCDepartment/people/joes...

How to get cursor to follow text when reading a web page?

I know this isn't strictly program related, but I think I've seen this answer on SO before and lost track of it. The specific question has to do with reading an electronic document. I find it helpful to move the cursor across the words as I'm reading them. This works great with Word documents, but I'm unable to do it with web pages. Is...

How to implement SAML SSO

How is SAML SSO typically implemented? I've read this about using SAML with Google Apps, and the wikipedia entry on SAML. The wikipedia entry talks about responding with forms containing details of the SAMLRequest and SAMLResponse. Does this mean that the user has to physically submit the form in order to proceed with the single sign o...

Impact of SSO on session time out

I need to implement SSO between a windows domain and a J2EE web appliction. I've been thinking what the impact of this would be on the web application's session timeout. We have a 2 hour time out. If we implement a seemless SSO, then I think it might become confusing for the user. The SSO will make it appear that the web application i...

How would you check the genuinity of an ASP.Net developer by asking him questions or specific

How would you check the genuinity of an ASP.Net developer by asking him questions or specific ...

flex and .net 2.0 web service, how to allow access from other domains?

I created a proyect in flex builder with application server type set to none when I debugg, I can acces the web service from my local machine thats on a site http://mysite.com/ws/ws.aspx?wsdl when I upload the flex app to mysite.com/myapp.html it works great but when I upload it to myapp.mysite.com/myapp.html it wont access the web se...

How to make the Asp.Net/WSE asmx page generator add the base class properties in a derived class

I have a simple base class B with 2 public properties. This class is inherited by another class D that adds another public property. The derived class is returned by a web service call. The page generated by ASP.Net looks like: '''<remarks/> <System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("System.Xml", "2.0.50727.3074"), _ Sys...

Get the Address details (like city, state etc.) of a prticular IP

Working on a mashup where I need an API which gives me details of Address if I pass IP of that parcular locton. Can anyone help me to get an API?? heard about iploc but its no longer available..:( ...

Rounded Corners

Duplicate: What is the best way to create rounded corners How to make a cross browser, W3C valid, semantic, non-javascript ROUND corner? What techniques (That are standards compliant) are there for putting rounded corners on display elements in an HTML page? I put HTML CSS and javascript on the tag list below because I believe they are...

End to End testing of Webservices

Hi all, first time poster and TDD adopter. :-) I'll be a bit verbose so please bear with me. I've recently started developing SOAP based web services using the Apache CXF framework, Spring and Commons Chain for implementing business flow. The problem I'm facing here is with testing the web services -- testing as in Unit testing and func...

Testing the Appearance of Web Applications

Duplicate: Testing a website for cross-browser/multiple-version support How do you test visual components I recently talked to a colleague about a tool we use at work for system testing web applications. The colleague then raised the question as to whether we tested the appearance of the application. Does anyone else ...

IIS5 or IIS6 Web Application running under IIS7?

I have a web application that runs fine under IIS5 or IIS6. I just installed Vista, which has IIS7. I just copied the entire web app over as-is, no changes to any files. I went into the IIS7 manager and created a web appliction under the Default Web Site and pointed it to the app I copied over. When I try to browse to the app in IE, ...

How can I serve an image with a Perl CGI script?

My google fu in failing me. How do I use Perl to serve up an already generated image? Example: <http><body><img src="getimage.pl"></body></html> What goes in getimage.pl? ...