web

c# httpwebrequest to a web page iphone version

hello guys, i want to make an httwebrequest to a web page and get the response html of that page. the problem is i want to generate the request as i'm requesting it on iPhone so that the website gives me the iphone version of the page some told me to set the user agent to some string.. i did but its not working i think i need to modif...

Programming language to automatically navigate website?

Hi, I've been programming for many years now, and I have just one question. What programming language allows you to create programs which can automatically navigate websites and perform various actions? For example, logging in, browse to a specific page, fill out forms, extract certain text and so on. This is different to a macro as a ...

Determine which OS from Javascript

Is there a way to determine which OS is the browser being run on? I have an NPAPI plugin which, at the moment, can only function on Linux and I would like to alert users if they try using the plugin on !Linux machines. ...

http and threading

http is stateless...variables and objects are destroyed in every request...we have sessions to maintain state... but how does threading apply to http anyway? does that mean I can only fiddle around with cookies and session data if any number of users each use one account or try to update one record in my database (I know about lockings ...

Is there any difference between assemblies compiled from WebApplication and ClassLibrary projects?

In other words, if I have a compiled dll file, is there a way to find out (using Reflection) whether this dll is produced from a WebApplication, ClassLibrary or another project type? Is there any difference at all? ...

Which way is better to define JavaScript regular expressions?

Is it better to use the RegExp object or the inline style? And why? ...

Blacklist IP database

Hi, Is there an open database of blacklisted IP for the Web? With a lot of public web proxy you know... such the blacklist used by the Global blocking of Wikipedia. Thanks in advance. ...

jsp:how to hide folder structure of website from users?

how to hide folder structure of website from users. i have developed a website on jave platform (jsp). website is deployed on jboss. suppose my website 's home page url is dummy.com/dummyFolder/dummy1.jsp user can watch all of jsp pages in website by going on url dummy.com/dummyFolder/ what should i do to prevent user to view my ...

communication between browser and web server

can anyone explain how the communication takes place between the browser and web server? (needs a technical answer) ...

.NET Web Scripting

I'm attempting to right a script to logon (username and password) on to a website and download a file. I've tried using the webClient and webBrowser classes to no avail, they don't seem to work for what I need them to do. Does anyone else have any suggestions? ...

Examining AJAX HTTP requests using Web Inspector

Is there an easy way to examine the HTTP GET/POST/OPTIONS/HEAD etc requests being made by jquery ajax calls using WebKit's Web Inspector? I'm hand crafting responses and am looking for a simple way to monitor the back and forth traffic. ...

Web Part to Field control

Need to convert a web part to a field control on a Sharepoint page. Part of the problem is to migrate all the content on existing pages that use the web part to the corresponding field control. Any ideas on how to accomplish this as painlessly as possible? ...

Azure App wont start

every time i try starting my azure application. I try building it and it says it has all successful build attempts but i am getting an error that says: "Windows Azure Tools: Start role failed for one or more roles " I cannt see why i am getting this error, since i followed every step as stated in the tutorial videos. please help. I am us...

Conversion of a Java Web Start app to an Applet

I'm trying to figure out how difficult it would be to convert a Java Web Start app to an applet. Theoretically, if the application didn't do anything such as write to the file system...basically if all of it's actions should be safe within the Applet sandbox, how tricky would it be? Is it a matter of wrapping the main app inside of an ...

Web timer using Python

I would like to create web page which will print simple message x minutes to shutdown where 'x' would decrease once a minute automatically without clicking 'refresh' in web browser. The value will be counted from data downloaded from SNMP source (that is why I wanted to use Python). AFAIK I should use Javascript (am I right ?). Is it...

How do you make a good web site design

What resources do you use to make a good and beautiful web site design? Do you use templates? What patterns you use? Are there any web site with good resources and ideas? ...

Detecting an URL that redirects to another location

I need to detect when an URL redirects the browser to another location, including javascript redirects. I thought of using an actual web browser engine with javascript support to achieve this, by loading and interpreting the html from the url and setting some sort of "hook" to be notified whenever the browser changes the address. Can an...

Need opinion regarding design/architecture of a web application

I am working on a web application which needs to get data from some local and some non local resources and then display it. As it could take arbitrary amount of time to get the data from these resources I am thinking of using the actors concept so that each actor is responsible for getting data from the respective resource. The request t...

Background music for iPhone web application ?

Is it possible to play background music on my iPhone web application? When somebody took my web application on their iPhone safari browser, I wanted to play some background music on their iPhone. ...

Opinion Mining - What Database Type?

Hi guys, I am entering a project to make a Opinion Mining (Data Mining -> Web Mining -> Opinion Mining) to get semantic orientation of the words contained. We will use a crawler to get the pages opinion. Now the question is, what type of DataBase should I use (OO, Relational, hierachycal, etc), is best to use in this type of project. ...