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web scraping to fill out (and retrieve) search forms?

Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to "automate" the task of typing in entries to search forms and extracting matches from the results. For instance, I have a list of journal articles for which I would like to get DOI's (digital object identifier); manually for this I would go to the journal articles search page (e.g., http://pubs.acs...

How to get Firefox bookmarks from a Delphi application?

I know how to get the favourites from IE, but how can I access Firefox's bookmarks? Here's the code I have for retrieving the IE favourites: uses ShlObj, ActiveX; function GetIEFavourites(const favpath: string): TStrings; var searchrec: TSearchRec; str: TStrings; path, dir, FileName: string; Buffer: array[0..2047] of Char; ...

How can Facebook's photo upload application access the local harddrive?

I didn't think it was possible for client side applications to access the harddrive? How can this application do it? Can a signed Java applet get access to your peripherals? I know that flash can... ...

Web navigation via paths..

I'm a complete web novice but I couldn't help notice that some web sites that generate a lot of content (such as www.stackoverflow.com) often seem to navigate to specific items via the path. For example clicking on discussion item "blah-blah-blah" in www.whatever.com/discusions will often link to URL with a pattern of www.whatever.com/di...

An idea about developing an agile wall web tool

Hi folks, I'm thinking about developing a web app to visualize the agile wall. The reason is that the project I'm working in has multiple distributed teams, so it is very difficult to share the information on the agile wall across the teams. I know some tools like JIRA do have agile wall functionality built in, what I want to have is a ...

Where do you get pics for your designs?

And also, do you use pics found online in your projects? ...

Program needed to display graph of tab delimited file on web in real time

What I need is a method to display a graph of data from a tab delimited file uploaded to a website. Once the file is uploaded the program will convert the data to a graph or the graph be generated locally and sent to website, but it needs to be automated and in realtime. Thanks, Antone ...

when/where we need an API feature on our website?

When and where we use an API feature in our website? what are the advantages of APIs? How to write API's programs? Is there any reference for how to create API's? Or structure of API Applications? These are the general questions, please do let me know your thoughts about APIs. I think my question is clear for all :) thanks in adv...

How can I see what verison of javascript does my browser use ?

How can I see what verison of javascript does my browser use ? ...

How to export a remote java webstart app thru WAN ?

Hi, I've got the following problem. A client is looking for better latency to access a forex trading java web app (.jnlp) that is stored on a third party server. I can provide him access to one of our servers (running linux) that is geographicaly closer to the trading portal (rather than connecting directly to the trading server, less...

asp.net Web services issue

I have a webservice that returns a weather information to the client. When I run the webservices internally it runs perfectly fine.. But when client runs it, the client app hangs. On testing, I see that everything runs perfectly fine but by the end before sending response the processing just stops and never returns anything. So client ap...

Is Java's applet the only way for the Java SE to work on a website?

Does Java SE (Standard Edition) offer a way to make its programs work online beside the Applets? Or is the applet the only way to do that? ...

Why is http://www.shlomifish.org/ Displayed Wrong in MSIE 8?

Hi all! I maintain a personal web-site at http://www.shlomifish.org/ . It is displayed fine in Firefox 3.5, Opera 9.x, Konqueror 4.3 and Internet Explorer (MSIE) 7. However, with MSIE 8 ( 8.0.6001.18702 ) it is displayed completely wrong: there's a large whitespace at the top and I cannot see the left navigation menu. The page valida...

HTTP 1xx Status Codes

Hi there! Does anyone of you has ever seen a real life occurence of the HTTP "Expect" header? Or any proxy or server answering with a "100 Continue"-Status Message? Do popular HTTP servers like IIS or Apache ever encounter situations where a "100 Continue" is returned? Thanks, Max ...

Specify the port precisely for a webservice in Web.config

I want to precisely set the port for a .NET 3.5 web service using the client services api I have been trying to get this to work using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546195.aspx to no avail I have my domain mydomain .com / Appservices where is Appservices is an app root. I can login to my web site using the login page but t...

How to get a website screenshot in python

Hi all What I want to achieve is to get a website screenshot from any website in python. Env: Linux ...

How do you build and deploy a scalable web services infrastructure?

I have a client asking this for a requirement and haven't done this before, what does he mean by web service infrastructure? ...

How to add custom properties to a custom webcontrol

I want to add custom typed properties to a webcontrol, like for example EditRowStyle in GridView, but in a way that the property's properties can be declared in Source view in ascx/aspx. It's clear that GridView hasn't got a property like EditRowStyle-BackColor, but only EditRowStyle has. Something like this: public class MyCustomGrid :...

Using Web Service or Web Service Reference

This relates specifically to .NET. And I've decided to use the Web service Reference instead of Web Service...I think though my questions below really are for either situation and I want to try to get the overall idea of this. So here is the issue for me. Let me first explain where I'm coming from. One past projects, I've talked to ...

Violating the Rules of Web Development

Check out this page from the New York Times: http://homedelivery.nytimes.com/HDS/learnMorePopUp.do ?mode=common.learnMorePopUp &productId=NDS &prodRate=7.40 I was surprised to see that when I manually modified the prodRate parameter, the page updated: The introductory subscription rate. The regular subscription rate. Try ...