webserver

Limit the number of concurrent connections from the server side?

I'm writing my own webserver and I don't yet handle concurrent connections properly. I get massive page loading lag due to inappropriately handling concurrent connections (I respond to SYN, but I lose the GET packet somehow. The browser retries after a while, but it takes 3 seconds!) I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to instru...

How do i secure a web server's image upload directory ?

For my web application, people can upload images from a web form to my web server. What should I set the CHMOD settings for that image upload directory so that people can upload images (from the web server) to that directory but not execute any files they upload for security reasons. Would the chmod settings be? : chmod 744 directory/...

Web server - when should I use chunked transfer encoding ?

Looking at various web servers HTTP Headers, I notice that Google.com has: client-transfer-encoding: "chunked" What is chuncked transfer encoding and should I be using it on my web server? ...

Is there a webserver that can be built for Windows Mobile 6 that dynamically generates pages?

Okay, Now admittedly this sounds like a silly question; But, I actually have a need for this. I use tiddlywiki alot, and it'd be really, really cool if I could save changes to a tiddlywiki in some mobile browser. But it seems that with all the mobile browsers that I've tried, changes I make to my tiddlywiki cannot be saved to an S...

Is there a small classic ASP server like ASP.NET Development server that comes with Visual Studio?

I would like to hear if there is a small classic ASP server, similar to the ASP.NET Development server that comes with Visual Studio? We are a small group that supports a legacy (classic) ASP site, and would therefore like to have a small server that easily can be executed on a Windows XP machine. Currently we're stuck with IIS 5.1 on o...

Reverse proxy capable pure python webserver?

I am looking for a pure python based web server has the capability for reverse proxy as well? ...

Reverse proxy capable pure python webserver?

I am looking for a pure python based web server has the capability for reverse proxy as well? ...

How/where to deploy my webapp

hi, I have a built small web app using java/j2ee. I want to host it my self in my own servers (i have none now). I have already downloaded ubuntu server OS. I am complete new Bee. I am just learning things now. I prefer to host my app my own servers (preferably using Linux, Apache and MySQL) rather than google app engine or anyother ho...

How can I create an local webserver for my python scripts?

I'm looking to use a local webserver to run a series of python scripts for the user. For various unavoidable reasons, the python script must run locally, not on a server. As a result, I'll be using HTML+browser as the UI, which I'm comfortable with, for the front end. I've been looking, therefore, for a lightweight web server that can e...

Can someone explain a little bit about caching dynamic PHP pages?

I was wondering about caching dynamic PHP pages. Is it really about pre-compiling the PHP code and storing it in byte-code? Something similar to Python's .pyc which is a more compiled and ready to execute version and so that if the system sees that the .pyc file is newer than the .py file, then it won't bother to re-compile to .py file. ...

Embedded web server and gui framework for .NET applications

Hi, I'm looking for a framework which allows me to manage my application through a webbased GUI (using an embedded webserver) instead of winforms. Something like this: http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt but then for .NET In my code I should be able to instantiate classes (like buttons, forms etc), and when a user browses to a given port, t...

mysql access without webserver (ex. Apache)

I was wondering if there is a way to access a database service on a remote computer without having a webserver installed on that computer? Does MYSQL DBMS provide some interface (port) which can be connected directly to, or is a webserver (that forwards the communication) mandatory? ...

is SVN configuration possible in local/lan server?

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is "ab" or "httperf" better for checking performance of a website?

so far i know of "ab" and "httperf", both can check the performance of a website. is one better than the other? ...

Web server for running PHP+Erlang

I wish to run PHP and Erlang on a web server. Apache is ruled out, because the backend Erlang process would need to handle around 3000 requests concurrently. So definitely something with a smaller memory footprint like lighttpd... Which one would you recommend? And why? ...

Is there any API for getting start time of a APACHE WebServer?

I am writing a small application to get the various diagnostic parameter of Apache Webserver like time of the start of the server, Worker mode or Prefork mode, server version and many more. I have found few API for getting info about these parameter. But I colud not find nay API for the getting start time of the WebServer. Is there any s...

Is it safe to put database file in htdocs?

Gudeve, Can you recommend me a directory in my web server where I should put sensitive files? My htdocs is arranged like this: XAMPP/htdocs/NewsFeed The NewsFeed directory have index.php. The index.php file's function is to connect to a database. Now, should I put the database file inside htdocs? Will it be safe? ...

Using Oracle session state, and SessionStateStoreProviderBase in my web.config

Hey guys, Does anyone know or ran into an issue with images not getting rendered when using a custom session state. (I'm using oracle session provider) <sessionState cookieless="UseUri" timeout="20" mode="Custom" customProvider="MyOracleSessionStateStore" regenerateExpiredSessionId="true"> <providers> <add name="MyOracleSessionStateSto...

How to pass GET and POST data to the php executable?

I am writing a web server in C# and I'm trying to add support for PHP. I have it mostly working, except I don't know how to past GET and POST data to the PHP executable when i pass the file to it. I've been testing with GET since I haven't gotten to getting POST requests handled on the server, and I have the string of the arguments that ...

is it almost a standard that web applications assume the query string to be in UTF-8?

when we type in or paste it to a browser's address bar: http://www.google.com/search?q=%E5%A4%A9 i think there is no way to tell whether the encoding is UTF-8 or any other encoding, so the application will usually assume it is UTF-8. So is it entirely up to the app to interpret it as whatever encoding it wants to or assumes to be? (f...