web

Tools for Website Content Cleanup?

I am working with a client to migrate a web site from the existing production hardware into a new hardware environment. Now seems like an excellent time to perform an audit and remove any old or obsolete content rather than just blindly copy it again. Are there any good free tools or scripts I can use to compare the web accessible cont...

What happens to sessions during deployments?

When deploying a web project written in ASP.Net, what happens to user sessions? Do users currently logged in lose their session data? And moreover, does the Web Application Project in Visual Studio differ from the Web Site Project in this respect? ...

How to check if IP is a public proxy

Recently we have had a lot of issues with a particular user who has been posting a piles of provocative messages on our website using the public proxy IPs. Can someone recommend a way to determine - is a specific IP a public proxy or not? Thanks. ...

Is there a way to make Internet Explorer not cache a particular website?

I am creating a webpage and whenever I refresh or move from page to page, it keeps on just reloading the cache values. But I don't want it to do that because I am working with dynamic data (from the database) so I want it to reload values from the database each time it refreshes, or whenever any page processing is done. And I don't mean ...

Django file upload input validation and security

I'm creating a very simple django upload application but I want to make it as secure as possible. This is app is going to be completely one way, IE. anybody who uploads a file will never have to retrieve it. So far I've done the following: Disallow certain file extensions (.php, .html, .py, .rb, .pl, .cgi, .htaccess, etc) Set a maxim...

How to efectively organize your web project? (specially mutilanguage websites)

I have my project folder, for instance, myWeb. In it there are various folders like styles (for CSS), scripts (JS), php (for php scripts), and folders for 3 different languages, for instance: en(english), sp (spanish), cn (chinese). This sometimes gives me problems because the index or default page should be in the root directory but all...

Print directly from browser without print popup window

Hi Everyone, As it said in the subject I've to create a feature for a web-based application that will allow users to send print directly without prompting any dialog boxe just make the print i.e click and print, simple! but not for me :(. Please, suggest what would be the best option and how should I write it up (technology). Suggest...

What to do if the head tag to make IE8 Emulate IE7 does not work?

Following the advice of the following post, I added the following code to one of my client's websites in .NET. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> For some reason the website is still not displaying the menus correctly. If I g...

Excel dynamic tables like functionality in web application

Hello, I need a way to show a grid in a web application, allowing grouping of the data by several user selected fields. The ideal would be something like what excel dynamic tables provide. Does anyone know about a control that can do this? If it is integrated with ASP.NET that would be a plus. Thanks in advance! ...

Should I Create an API or Webservice ?

Currently I am working on an app property website. Now currently if the user wants to upload a new establishment he has to enter the property details in their in house system and seperately on a different website linked to the website front end. So we would like to eliminate this duplicate data entry. We would like to provide a webservi...

Website Projects in Azure Web Role

I am researching a new ASP.Net project that we would like to host in a Windows Azure Web Role. One of the technical requirements of this project is to make use of the full pre-compilation options (non-updatable, single page assembly) of the ASP.Net Web Site project model - as opposed to the ASP.Net Web Application project model. Is it p...

What are some great web sites that are the best for the User Interface?

I am looking for nice looking sites that are good in terms of look and feel as well as usability. ...

Collaboration platform for developers and designers

Recently our newest web designer asked me why we use ASP.NET for our website. Reading through his question to the real one, I started thinking about it myself. Why are we using ASP.NET for web development? The problem we find so far is colaboration between the design team and developers. Typically our designers create some snazzy coo...

Developer Web Proxy

I need a proxy for web development debugging. Preferably something standalone so I can use it with both IE and Firefox. The one I have used so far is CharlesProxy but I was hoping to find a free one. Anyone know of a good one? ...

Tips for developing on WinForms thinking on a future Web developing

We are developing/mantaining an enterprise application which for historical reasons and development speedup it was targered for WinForms. Now we are thinking that sooner or later (more sooner than later) that application will need to be Web based. Thinking on the "to-Web" movement. Which are the most important things we have to consid...

creating 3d house and walk through in it on web

I'm trying to build a house and hosting it on web. It should be possible for the user to walk through around the house. Does sandy 3D and flash could support this application or have to go for VRML ...

Page Entirely Blank Despite Having Source Code! (TinyMCE, FireFox)

Alright guys, here's a tough one... In reference to this page. The page will seemingly randomly not display the output of server when using Firefox (version 3.5). I have not seen this problem occur in Safari or IE. The best way to have the problem occur is just reload the page about 10 times and it ought to have happened by then, and...

Howto load a resource from WEB-INF directory of a web archive

I have a web archive with a file placed in the WEB-INF directory. How do I load that file in a java class? I know I can put it in the classes directory and load it from there. It would just be put it in WEB-INF. ...

Howto style unordered list to display list items in rounded corner box

I would like to style an UL to display all items in a box with rounded corners (see below): Is it ppossible to use css and only the UL (with no additional divs and tables) as i'm going to use it in a CMS system to style all ul created by the user. ...

Newb needs to learn how to query .asmx web service

Hiya, I've been thrown a project which I have to say I've not got the faintest idea where to start so I'm hoping someone can give me some pointers here! I'm working with a SharePoint intranet, and I need to query a web service which has been set up. In the words of the guy who set it up: The result of that query will be a DataS...