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what is event driven web server

I want to understand basics of Event Driven web server, I know one of them is Tornado, but any other information is much appreciated. Thanks ...

How to maintain a persistent http connection in php?

hi, i've a little web interface which uploads a file on a server and then dumps that file in oracle db. but there are about 7 million records in it and web server get time out while reading and dumping that file. can someone please tell me how can i keep that session alive so that it doesn't get timeout when uploading, reading and dump...

How to send data to webserver and know it comes from a certain application?

Hello all. I'm trying to send data from my application to a webserver. The catch is that I want to encrypt the sent data and also make sure it comes from my application. (From what I've read so far it's easy to decrypt the data if it's not sent via HTTPS. On the unique application I didn't find anything except the Application ID Apple p...

how do i block people from outside by web server from seing what technologies im using such as apache and/or php?

i am running a test server locally that is also broadcasted (for education purposed) on a mac and i ran a software called acunetix (www.acunetix.com) and from another computer and it was able to detect the technologies used on the server. how can i block anything from viewing this information? ...

VS2010 pdb lock error when modifying a css file

In one of my VS projects I get this error when I modify a css file in a App_Themes catalog in runtime. CS0042: Unexpected error creating debug information file '[..]\Temporary ASP.NET Files[..]\App_Theme_MySite.pdb: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. I've used the Process Explorer and ...

MPMoviePlayerController on iPhone - Streaming or progressive download ?

Hi, In my iPhone App I need to show the videos which are in Flash format. I asked the client to change the videos in iPhone compatible format. They stored the converted the video on a server and I am able to show the video using MPMoviePlayerController. Now we need to store around 25 videos (Each around 300 MB) and access them via iPh...

can i restrict mongoose web server to not Accept http request but only from the host application

Hi I embedded the mongoose web server in my application it just showing bunch of web pages I opening port on localhost , but its mean I can send request from any ware in the network , this is something I like to prevent Is there any way to tell the web server to Accept request only from the host application? ...

Webserver for a desktop application – design consideration

We are moving our Delphi application to a new environment – it will be .NET. Some parts of an app will be moved to distributed processing, some will be moved to web servers. Therefore, this is an architecture shift from monolith desktop application to distributed system. Migration of current Delphi code to .NET is an issue itself (some c...

How to start Apache on EC2

Hi, I'm an absolute newbie to EC2. My goal is to run a php-mysql-website on EC2. I've just setup a new instance based on this ami It seems that apache isn't running? How do I start apache? Is there a general tutorial on how to start EC2 as a web server? Thanks! ...

xampp: hosting multiple sites

Hi, I have a web server running xampp. I have two domain names lets call them www.domain1.com and www.domain2.com. I have updated the dns settings of domain1 to point to my server which is working fine, (i.e the files for domain1 are in the htdocs folder and when i go to www.domain1.com in a browser i get the index file of these files.)...

Web Based Map application development

I am trying to develop a web based map application where the user can interact with the map. But I am new to this field and do not have much idea about how to approach this. Basically I want to use a static map created by me, so I think google map API s may not be used in this case. My development platform is unix. Can you please suggest...

Need Compilers on Server

Hello, I'm looking to build a web service that can compile some entered code (probably C/Java) and can run some tests on it. What kind of design should I follow? What compiler can I place on my server to do the job? Recommendations? Pros? Cons? ...