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How can I prevent bulk vulnerability scanning without using a CAPTCHA component?

How can I prevent that forms can be scanned with a sort of massive vulnerability scanners like XSSME, SQLinjectMe (those two are free Firefox add-ons), Accunetix Web Scanner and others? These "web vulnerability scanners" work catching a copy of a form with all its fields and sending thousands of tests in minutes, introducing all kind o...

document viewer

Hello, does sy know a nice server based document viewer which runs in any kind of browser and supports a large range of formats (pdf, tif, office, ...) don't bother with the ajax document viewer from Adeptol, I already know about it. Thx in advance for your suggestions. ...

Caching from URLs with a query string

The web application I'm working on serves up images with URLs like /image?name=a.gif. Pages are loading slowly partly because browsers are not caching the images. Is there any combination of http headers that will persuade IE to cache the images even though the URL has a query string in it? I'm trying to avoid the browser making any unn...

How can I write to a custom event log from my ASMX web service running as network service?

I have a ASMX web services running as 'network service'. I want to be able to write to a custom event log every time a web service is called (and when errors happen). I have created a new event log (MyLog) using the following code running as admin on a Windows server 2008 machine: if (!EventLog.SourceExists(APPLICATIONN...

Design patterns for web services?

Hi, I am developing web service in C#, .NET 2.0. What are the proven design patterns for a web service? If possible please provide me the link about these design patterns? ...

How can I access an intranet web page from Perl?

I am writing a Perl script to access intranet page with authentication. Is there any Perl module to access intranet web page? ...

Groove Web Services question GrooveMembers.Create

I am developing a proof-of-concept website site in C# that will take URL Query strings, match that to a paticular Groove workspace, and then invite the user into that space if they don't have it. I have the connect-to Groove Data Bridge, find the workspace, read the workspace members portion working just fine. I've come accross a stumb...

Controlling windows services via the web?

Hi, I've been thinking of a piece of software and wondering if it exists ... a quick scout around on google indicates that it doesn't. Here's our problem, we have a bunch of global services that run at various international locations. We need to globally control these services, for example a global bounce (something that occurs every w...

Testing a web service for missing mandatory fields in .NET

Part of my current work involves using an external web service, for which I have generated client proxy code (using the WSDL.exe tool). I need to test that the web service correctly handles the absence of mandatory fields. For instance, Surname and Forename are mandatory - if they are absent from the call, then a SOAP fault block should...

Ruby on Rails or a PHP framework

I am a capable programmer and I write software for a living. I am taking up a new project to build a website that has a bunch of forms that perform CRUD operations on a database and some multimedia. I am very familiar with PHP and Python and have written some websites in them. I have written some rake tasks and a few ruby scripts that ru...

is there a good web crawler library available for PHP or Ruby?

is there a good web crawler library available for PHP or Ruby? a library that can do it depth first or breadth first... and handle the links even when href="../relative_path.html" and base url is used. ...

Is it possible to create an updater that downloads files from a web server using NSIS?

Hi all, I have created a mini installer in NSIS that installs patches for my application. I want to create an NSIS software updater that would download this mini installer from the web server. Is it possible? Thanks... ...

Is it a good idea to use XML and XSLT for websites?

I'm wondering whether it brings advantages or disadvantages when using a XML document for the content of a web page and XSLT to manage the display part and not using plain HTML. The first condition in my eyes is browser support for XML and XSLT. But as far as I know no modern browser has a problem with it. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) Bu...

How to create a widget platform from scratch

We want to create a widget platform for a particular website. I couldn't find any articles on doing this, but what I need right now is for someone to point me in the right direction. What framework should we use? I am proficient with RoR, and okay with Java/.Net, but I don't know if doing this in rails is easy because I can't see how t...

extract links (URLs), with nokogiri in ruby, from a href html tags?

hi I want to extract from a webpage all URLs how can I do that with nokogiri? example: <div class="heat"> <a href='http://example.org/site/1/'&gt;site 1</a> <a href='http://example.org/site/2/'&gt;site 2</a> <a href='http://example.org/site/3/'&gt;site 3</a> </diV> result should be an list: l = ['http://example.org/site/1...

webservice client - No write method for property

Hi, when I execute a webservice client - generated by Apache Axis (2) - for usage of a webservice (published with xFire including Aegis configurations) I only have got the following error: No write method for property {http://service.company.com}elements in class ... at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFault...

What is the standard method for a website to communicate with a win32 executable?

I have some delphi code which, given a list of items, calculates the total price taking into account any special deals that might apply. This code is non-trivial to rewrite in another language. How should I set it up to communicate with a website running on the same server? The website will need to ask it for a price every time the use...

Need a way to present a prerequisites for an object.

I don't really know how to explain this in a understandable way but here goes. The project I'm working on is a web application that revolves around courses, and each course have a set of prerequisites, the problem is that I don't know a good way to present these for the user. Example: To take course4, the person must have sold at least...

Why do people post their captchas publicly? Captcha: somerandomword

I'm implementing a website with a CAPTCHA on the registration form; my first. I've read dozens of posts on the arguments for and against, and of all the various implementations out there. I'm happy with all that but it's a necessary evil in my case. What I don't understand is why people post the random captcha characters in their posts,...

Max number of web methods?

Guys I have a web service in asp.net 2.0 that has 234 methods. It seems that when I add another method the site does not compile in VS2005 until I remove one first. I get a message saying that the new method I just added does not exist in a file that belongs in the Microsoft.Net/.../Temporary Files directory. I have restarted IIS, close...