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• Is there any kind of established architecture for browser based games?

  - by black_puppydog

  I am beginning the development of a broser based game in which players take certain actions at any point in time. Big parts of gameplay will be happening in real life and just have to be entered into the system. I believe a good kind of comparison might be a platform for managing fantasy football, although I have virtually no experience playing that, so please correct me if I am mistaken here. The point is that some events happen in the program (i.e. on the server, out of reach for the players) like pulling new results from some datasource, starting of a new round by a game master and such. Other events happen in real life (two players closing a deal on the transfer of some team member or whatnot - again: have never played fantasy football) and have to be entered into the system. The first part is pretty easy since the game masters will be "staff" and thus can be trusted to a certain degree to not mess with the system. But the second part bothers me quite a lot, especially since the actions may involve multiple steps and interactions with different players, like registering a deal with the system that then has to be approved by the other party or denied and passed on to a game master to decide. I would of course like to separate the game logic as far as possible from the presentation and basic form validation but am unsure how to do this in a clean fashion. Of course I could (and will) put some effort into making my own architectural decisions and prototype different ideas. But I am bound to make some stupid mistakes at some point, so I would like to avoid some of that by getting a little "book smart" beforehand. So the question is: Is there any kind of architectural works that I can read up on? Papers, blogs, maybe design documents or even source code? Writing this down this seems more like a business application with business rules, workflows and such... Any good entry points for that? EDIT: After reading the first answers I am under the impression of having made a mistake when including the "MMO" part into the title. The game will not be all fancy (i.e. 3D or such) on the client side and the logic will completely exist on the server. That is, apart from basic form validation for the user which will also be mirrored on the server side. So the target toolset will be HTML5, JavaScript, probably JQuery(UI). My question is more related to the software architecture/design of a system that enforces certain rules. Separation of ruleset and presentation One problem I am having is that I want to separate the game rules from the presentation. The first step would be to make an own module for the game "engine" that only exposes an interface that allows all actions to be taken in a clean way. If an action fails with regard to some pre/post condition, the engine throws an exception which is then presented to the user like "you cannot sell something you do not own" or "after that you would end up in a situation which is not a valid game state." The problem here is that I would like to be able to not even present invalid action in the first place or grey out the corresponding UI elements. Changing and tweaking the ruleset Another big thing is the ruleset. It will probably evolve over time and most definitely must be tweaked. What's more, it should be possible (to a certain extent) to build a ruleset that fits a specific game round, i.e. choosing different kinds of behaviours in different aspects of the game. This would do something like "we play it with extension A today but we throw out extension B." For me, this screams "Architectural/Design pattern" but I have no idea on who might have published on something like this, not even what to google for.

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• Nashorn ?? JDBC ? Oracle DB ?????·?? 2

  - by Homma

  ???? Nashorn ?? JavaScript ??????? JDBC ? Oracle DB ?????????????????????????????????????JDBC ???????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????? ????? URL ? https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn_ja/entry/nashorn_jdbc_2 ??? ????????? JDBC ????? ??????????????? ${ORACLE_HOME}/jdbc/lib/ojdbc6.jar ??????????????????????????? JDBC ?????????????? ????? ojdbc6.jar ?????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????? var OracleDataSource = Java.type("oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"); var ods = new OracleDataSource(); ods.setURL("jdbc:oracle:thin:test/test@dbsrv:1521:orcl"); var conn = ods.getConnection(); var meta = conn.getMetaData(); print("JDBC driver version is " + meta.getDriverVersion()); ???????? JDBC ?????? jjs ????? -cp ?????????????????????? $ jjs -cp ojdbc6.jar version.js JDBC driver version is 11.2.0.3.0 ????????????????????????????? JAR ????? Main Class ?????????????? ????JDBC ???????????????????????????????? ?????????java -jar ojdbc6.jar ?? JDBC ?????????????????? $ java -jar ojdbc6.jar Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 JDBC 4.0 compiled with JDK6 on Thu_Jul_11_15:43:23_PDT_2013 #Default Connection Properties Resource #Fri May 30 10:37:32 JST 2014 ????? JAR ???????????? Main-Class ???????????? main(String[]) ??????????????????? Nashorn ?????????????? JAR ????? Main-Class ???? ?? Main-Class ???????????? jar ????? JAR ?????????META-INF/MANIFEST.MF ???????????????? Main-Class ??????? $ jar xf ojdbc6.jar $ grep Main-Class META-INF/MANIFEST.MF Main-Class: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver Main-Class ? oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver ????????????? Main-Class ??? ??????? oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver ???? main ????? Nashorn ???????? $ jjs -cp ojdbc6.jar jjs> var OracleDriver = Java.type("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"); jjs> var StringArray = Java.type("java.lang.String[]"); jjs> OracleDriver.main(new StringArray(0)) Oracle 11.2.0.3.0 JDBC 4.0 compiled with JDK6 on Thu_Jul_11_15:43:23_PDT_2013 #Default Connection Properties Resource #Fri May 30 10:55:22 JST 2014 null jjs> java ????? JAR ??????????????????????????? Java ???????????????? Java.type() ??????? JavaClass ????????????????????? ??? Nashorn ????????????? JDBC ? Oracle DB ????????JAR ????? Main-Class ???????????????? ??? Oracle DB ????? SQL ???????????????

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• Redmine on Apache2 with Passenger issue

  - by nkr1pt

  I installed Redmine and run it in Apache2 with the Passenger module. Apache2 boots, Passenger module gets loaded and the Redmine welcome page is shown, however when trying to login or navigate to other parts of the Redmine site, the browser keeps loading and loading and loading forever, although the Redmine production.log indicates redirects and HTTP 200 codes in the header, so everything seems to work correctly according to the log. I tested in various browsers. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I will add apache configuration and some relevant log snippets from both apache and redmine hereafter. Apache2 Redmine configuration: DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /var/www/redmine> RailsEnv production AllowOverride all RailsBaseURI /redmine PassengerResolveSymLinksInDocumentRoot on </Directory> Apache2 error log after booting Apache: [Wed Feb 09 19:59:58 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) Phusion_Passenger/3.0.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.6.6 configured -- resuming normal operations Redmine production log after logging in: Logfile created on Wed Feb 09 20:01:40 +0100 2011 Processing WelcomeController#index (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:01:48) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"welcome"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering welcome/index Completed in 220ms (View: 96, DB: 16) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine] Processing AccountController#login (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:17) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"login", "controller"=>"account"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering account/login Completed in 85ms (View: 63, DB: 1) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine/login] Processing AccountController#login (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:20) [POST] Parameters: {"back_url"=>"http%3A%2F%2Fsirius%2Fredmine", "action"=>"login", "authenticity_token"=>"cEMUZHhRKJU8w3p6d+xQQhJTk4/pnnzUdg5g5fwhxDU=", "username"=>"admin", "controller"=>"account", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "login"=>"Login \302\273"} Redirected to http://sirius/redmine Completed in 37ms (DB: 6) | 302 Found [http://sirius/redmine/login] Processing WelcomeController#index (for 192.168.1.55 at 2011-02-09 20:03:20) [GET] Parameters: {"action"=>"index", "controller"=>"welcome"} Rendering template within layouts/base Rendering welcome/index Completed in 100ms (View: 77, DB: 6) | 200 OK [http://sirius/redmine] Apache2 error log afterwards: [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine/login, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BjoPc2Vzc2lvbl9pZCIlNmVlMzFiMDc4MWQxZDU5ZTI5MTk2NjU0NGY3MzJmYzQ%3D--ea4b7adbc35551051632b5544faaad138ae08d90\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine/login, uri=/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nStatus: 200\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2157us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2272us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2342us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2407us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 2504us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [warn] [0209/200317:WARNING:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(32)] Failed to create or read input resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [warn] [0209/200317:WARNING:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(32)] Failed to create or read input resource /redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 3642us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssFilter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] http://sirius/redmine/login:9: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] http://sirius/redmine/login:17: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Failed to load resource http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 4863us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:Javascript [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:11: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:12: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:13: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:14: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:15: Found script with src /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8389us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8588us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 8701us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: 8701us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 9199us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineJs [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] Creating connectionhttp://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connectionhttp://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 11398us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:ImgRewrite [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 11506us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CacheExtender [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/prototype.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/effects.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/dragdrop.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/controls.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/javascripts/application.js?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(29)] http://sirius/redmine/login: Couldn't fetch resource /redmine/stylesheets/jstoolbar.css?1296181549 to rewrite. [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 14401us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:HtmlWriter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [notice] [0209/200317:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 15218us: HtmlParse::FinishParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:17 2011] [error] [0209/200317:ERROR:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(54)] net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc:506: Creating connection [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [warn] [client 192.168.1.55] Not GET request: 2., referer: http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine/login, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine/login\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BzoPc2Vzc2lvbl9pZCIlNmVlMzFiMDc4MWQxZDU5ZTI5MTk2NjU0NGY3MzJmYzQ6EF9jc3JmX3Rva2VuIjFjRU1VWkhoUktKVTh3M3A2ZCt4UVFoSlRrNC9wbm56VWRnNWc1ZndoeERVPQ%3D%3D--8b195ac3cab88b5a1f408e3f18aaddc70782140e\r\nContent-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\nContent-Length: 165\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine/login, uri=/redmine/login [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 302 Found\r\nLocation: http://sirius/redmine\r\nStatus: 302\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 604us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 697us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 758us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 813us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 912us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 965us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1020us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssFilter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1073us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:Javascript [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1125us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineCss [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1179us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:InlineJs [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1233us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:ImgRewrite [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1285us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CacheExtender [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1338us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:HtmlWriter [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine/login:1: 1415us: HtmlParse::FinishParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(247)] ModPagespeed OutputFilter called for request /redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(272)] unparsed=/redmine, absolute_url=http://sirius/redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: HtmlParse::StartParse [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(299)] Request headers:\nHTTP/1.1 0 Internal Server Error\r\nHost: sirius\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100723 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.8\r\nAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8\r\nAccept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r\nAccept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r\nKeep-Alive: 115\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\nReferer: http://sirius/redmine/login\r\nCookie: _redmine_session=BAh7BzoMdXNlcl9pZGkGOg9zZXNzaW9uX2lkIiVlYjNmYTY5NmZjNzMwYTdhMjA5ZDJmZmM4MTM0MzcyMw%3D%3D--57a4931aae681664d2a6ff6c039ac84b6ebc9e55\r\nIf-None-Match: "76628aff953f11fbdefb77ce3d575718"\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(302)] request-filename=/var/www/redmine, uri=/redmine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/mod_instaweb.cc(319)] ModPagespeed Response headers:\nHTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nStatus: 200\r\nX-Mod-Pagespeed: 0.9.0.0-128\r\n\r\n [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 1870us: HtmlParse::Flush [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 1973us: HtmlParse::CoalesceAdjacentCharactersNodes [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2040us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:AddHead [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2101us: HtmlParse::SanityCheck [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/util/google_message_handler.cc(48)] http://sirius/redmine:1: 2231us: HtmlParse::ApplyFilter:CssCombine [Wed Feb 09 20:03:20 2011] [notice] [0209/200320:INFO:net/instaweb/apache/serf_url_async_fetcher.cc(632)] Initiating async fetch for http://sirius/redmine/stylesheets/application.css?1296181549

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• Apache taking up too much CPU

  - by andrewtweber

  I'm trying to manage a server on Amazon for a network of sites that receives about 100 million pageviews per month. Unfortunately, nobody out of my team of 5 developers has much server admin experience. Right now we have the MaxClients set to 1400. Currently our traffic is about average, and we have 1150 total Apache processes running, which use about 2% CPU each! Out of those 1150, 800 of them are currently sleeping, but still taking up CPU. I'm sure there are ways to optimize this. I have a few thoughts: It appears Apache is creating a new process for every single connection. Is this normal? Is there a way to more quickly kill the sleeping processes? Should we turn KeepAlive on? Each page loads about 15-20 medium-sized graphics and a lot of javascript/css. So, here's our Apache setup. We do plan on contracting a server admin asap, but I would really appreciate some advice until we can find someone. Timeout 25 KeepAlive Off MaxKeepAliveRequests 200 KeepAliveTimeout 5 <IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 100 MinSpareServers 20 MaxSpareServers 50 ServerLimit 1400 MaxClients 1400 MaxRequestsPerChild 5000 </IfModule> <IfModule worker.c> StartServers 4 MaxClients 400 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> Full top output: top - 23:44:36 up 1 day, 6:43, 4 users, load average: 379.14, 379.17, 377.22 Tasks: 1153 total, 379 running, 774 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 71.9%us, 26.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.9%si, 0.0%st Mem: 70343000k total, 23768448k used, 46574552k free, 527376k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 10054596k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1756 mysql 20 0 10.2g 1.8g 5256 S 19.8 2.7 904:41.13 mysqld 21515 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4512 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.42 httpd 21524 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4032 R 2.1 0.0 0:32.63 httpd 21544 apache 20 0 394m 16m 4084 R 2.1 0.0 0:36.38 httpd 21643 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4360 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.20 httpd 21817 apache 20 0 396m 17m 4064 R 2.1 0.0 0:38.22 httpd 22134 apache 20 0 395m 17m 4584 R 2.1 0.0 0:35.62 httpd 22211 apache 20 0 397m 18m 4104 R 2.1 0.0 0:29.91 httpd 22267 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4636 R 2.1 0.0 0:35.29 httpd 22334 apache 20 0 397m 18m 4096 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.86 httpd 22549 apache 20 0 395m 17m 4056 R 2.1 0.0 0:31.01 httpd 22612 apache 20 0 397m 19m 4152 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.34 httpd 22721 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4060 R 2.1 0.0 0:32.76 httpd 22932 apache 20 0 396m 17m 4020 R 2.1 0.0 0:37.34 httpd 22933 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4060 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.77 httpd 22949 apache 20 0 396m 18m 4060 R 2.1 0.0 0:34.61 httpd 22956 apache 20 0 402m 24m 4072 R 2.1 0.0 0:41.45 httpd

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• enabling gzip with htaccess...why is it hit or miss?

  - by adam-asdf

  I have shared hosting through Justhost. I use the HTML5 Boilerplate .htaccess (have tried other methods from here and there without luck) the compression part is as follows: <IfModule mod_deflate.c> # Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/ <IfModule mod_setenvif.c> <IfModule mod_headers.c> SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding </IfModule> </IfModule> # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types <IfModule mod_filter.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \ application/javascript \ application/json \ application/rss+xml \ application/vnd.ms-fontobject \ application/x-font-ttf \ application/xhtml+xml \ application/xml \ font/opentype \ image/svg+xml \ image/x-icon \ text/css \ text/html \ text/plain \ text/x-component \ text/xml </IfModule> </IfModule> However, it isn't working—at least I don't think—My home page (html) isn't compressing, the CSS and some of the JS aren't gzipped. It is failing on HTML, CSS and JS. However, some things are (or were, who knows what it will look like when you check) gzipped. My domain is http://adaminfinitum.com/ What is weird is that the (Google) PageSpeed browser extension for Firefox (whatever the current version is [Nov. 2012]) gives me a 95% speed rating (and no warnings about compression), yet YSlow and Chrome developer tools both flag me about gzip, as does a tool I found on here while researching this. To reduce cookies I set up a subdomain on my site and I thought maybe that was it so I added an .htaccess there also, but no luck. To reduce http requests I embedded some of webfonts and images in CSS (HTML5 BP stipulates not to compress images, and apparently '.woff' files are already compressed) so I thought maybe that was it and I spent all day separating and asynchronously loading those portions (via Modernizr.load) but that hasn't helped either...if anything it made it worse due to increasing http requests (I realize speed scores of async resources may be misleading). Researching this, it seems to be a fairly common issue but I haven't found an explanation/solution. I don't think it is a MIME-type issue, I have quadruple checked (and thrice edited) my .htaccess files. My hosting company said they run Apache 2.2.22 and I have looked at everything I can find. What gives?

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• Using nginx's proxy_redirect when the response location's domain varies

  - by Chalky

  I am making an web app using SoundCloud's API. Requesting an MP3 to stream involves two requests. I'll give an example. Firstly: http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/59815100/stream This returns a 302 with a temporary link to the actual MP3 (which varies each time), for example: http://ec-media.soundcloud.com/xYZk0lr2TeQf.128.mp3?ff61182e3c2ecefa438cd02102d0e385713f0c1faf3b0339595667fd0907ea1074840971e6330e82d1d6e15dd660317b237a59b15dd687c7c4215ca64124f80381e8bb3cb5&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJ4IAZE5EOI7PA7VQ&Expires=1347621419&Signature=Usd%2BqsuO9wGyn5%2BrFjIQDSrZVRY%3D The issue I had was that I am attempting to load the MP3 via JavaScript's XMLHTTPRequest, and for security reasons the browser can't follow the 302, as ec-media.soundcloud.com does not set a header saying it is safe for the browser to access via XMLHTTPRequest. So instead of using the SoundCloud URL, I set up two locations in nginx, so the browser only interacts with the server my app is hosted on and no security errors come up: location /soundcloud/tracks/ { # rewrite URL to match api.soundcloud.com's URL structure rewrite \/soundcloud\/tracks\/(\d*) /tracks/$1/stream break; proxy_set_header Host api.soundcloud.com; proxy_pass http://api.soundcloud.com; # the 302 will redirect to /soundcloud/media instead of the original domain proxy_redirect http://ec-media.soundcloud.com /soundcloud/media; } location /soundcloud/media/ { rewrite \/soundcloud\/media\/(.*) /$1 break; proxy_set_header Host ec-media.soundcloud.com; proxy_pass http://ec-media.soundcloud.com; } So myserver/soundcloud/tracks/59815100 returns a 302 to /myserver/soundcloud/media/xYZk0lr2TeQf.128.mp3...etc, which then forwards the MP3 on. This works! However, I have hit a snag. Sometimes the 302 location is not ec-media.soundcloud.com, it's ak-media.soundcloud.com. There are possibly even more servers out there and presumably more could appear at any time. Is there any way I can handle an arbitrary 302 location without having to manually enter each possible variation? Or is it possible for nginx to handle the redirect and return the response of the second step? So myserver/soundcloud/tracks/59815100 follows the 302 behind the scenes and returns the MP3? The browser automatically follows the redirect, so I can't do anything with the initial response on the client side. I am new to nginx and in a bit over my head so apologies if I've missed something obvious, or it's beyond the scope of nginx. Thanks a lot for reading.

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• Win XP error 0x80041003 using GetObject/winmgmts

  - by John Lewis

  My computer is called "neil" and I want to set some values using WMI in vbScript. I adapetd the script below from one supplied by Microsoft. When I run it in my browser I get Error Type: (0x80041003) /dressage/30/pdf2.asp, line 8 I suspect it is some registry/security setting. Any advice? John Lewis FULL SCRIPT call Print_HTML_Page("http://neil/dressage/ascii.asp", "ascii") Sub SetPDFFile(strPDFFile) Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002 strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Dane Prairie Systems\Win2PDF" strComputer = "." Set objReg=GetObject( _ "winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _ strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv") strValueName = "PDFFileName" objReg.SetExpandedStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,_ strKeyPath,strValueName,strPDFFile End Sub Sub Print_HTML_Page(strPathToPage, strPDFFile) SetPDFFile( strPDFFile ) Set objIE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application") 'From http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1092473&page=5 On Error Resume Next strPrintStatus = objIE.QueryStatusWB(6) If Err.Number 0 Then MsgBox "Cannot find a printer. Operation aborted." objIE.Quit Set objIE = Nothing Exit Sub End If With objIE .visible=0 .left=200 .top=200 .height=400 .width=400 .menubar=0 .toolbar=1 .statusBar=0 .navigate strPathToPage End With 'Wait until IE has finished loading Do while objIE.busy WScript.Sleep 100 Loop On Error Goto 0 objIE.ExecWB 6,2 'Wait until IE has finished printing WScript.Sleep 2000 objIE.Quit Set objIE = Nothing End Sub Update: Thanks for your reply. The line breaks seem to have been introduced in the process of paasting into this form. Well spotted - I was using a PDF file name "ascii". I added a .pdf extension but still get the error. I suspect you're right that it's to do with admin rights. Here's more about the setup and what I'm trying to achieve. Win2pdf is a product for writing PDFs by works by simulating a Windows printer. You "print" the page, select win2pdf in the print dialog and it then asks for a file name. I have it installed on my pc (called Neil) and it works fine in this conventional way. My aim is to write an html page to a PDF file using win2pdf - but via ASP/vbscript/javascript rather than with manual intervention. The script for doing this was provided by win2PDF's tech support but when it did not work, that was the limit of their understanding. In the sample script the file ascii.asp just produces a table of ascii codes/characters. The URL given is on my own PC which has IIS set up to run scripts which it does fine. The error I get occurs on about the fourth line executed. I am logged in with full admin rights - I think! But I'm no expert. I hope this helps to give some more specific suggestions about how to check/fix the admin rights.

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• How to get same cookie to control two different folders on same site.

  - by Incandescent

  I am using the below cookie javascript to run a background color changer on my site. I want to also use it for the background color of my forum which is in a separate folder (http://lightbulbchoice.com/forum). I currently have it working on both the site and forum but you have to set each separately, i.e., each is setting it's own cookie. How do I get the forum to locate the main site cookie and not set it's own? // Cookie Functions - Second Helping (21-Jan-96) // Written by: Bill Dortch, hIdaho Design // The following functions were released to the public domain by him. function getCookieVal (offset) { var endstr = document.cookie.indexOf (";", offset); if (endstr == -1) endstr = document.cookie.length; return unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, endstr)); } function GetCookie (name) { var arg = name + "="; var alen = arg.length; var clen = document.cookie.length; var i = 0; while (i < clen) { var j = i + alen; if (document.cookie.substring(i, j) == arg) return getCookieVal (j); i = document.cookie.indexOf(" ", i) + 1; if (i == 0) break; } return null; } function SetCookie (name, value) { var argv = SetCookie.arguments; var argc = SetCookie.arguments.length; var expires = (argc > 2) ? argv[2] : null; var path = (argc > 3) ? argv[3] : null; var domain = (argc > 4) ? argv[4] : null; var secure = (argc > 5) ? argv[5] : false; document.cookie = name + "=" + escape (value) + ((expires == null) ? "" : ("; expires=" + expires.toGMTString())) + ((path == null) ? "" : ("; path=" + path)) + ((domain == null) ? "" : ("; domain=" + domain)) + ((secure == true) ? "; secure" : ""); } // --> </script>

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• HTTP Content-type header for cached files

  - by Brian

  Hello, Using Apache with mod_rewrite, when I load a .css or .js file and view the HTTP headers, the Content-type is only set correctly the first time I load it - subsequent refreshes are missing Content-type altogether and it's creating some problems for me. Specifically, gzip is not compressing these files. I can get around this by appending a random query string value to the end of each filename, eg. http://www.site.com/script.js?12345 However, I don't want to have to do that, since caching is good and all I want is for the Content-type to be present. I've tried using a RewriteRule to force the type but still didn't solve the problem. Any ideas? Thanks, Brian More Details: HTTP headers WITHOUT random query string value: http://localhost/script.js GET /script.js HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://localhost/ Cookie: PHPSESSID=ke3p35v5qbus24che765p9jni5; If-Modified-Since: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:49:56 GMT If-None-Match: "3440e9-119ed-485621404f100" Cache-Control: max-age=0 HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:19:44 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1 Connection: Keep-Alive Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Etag: "3440e9-119ed-485621404f100" Vary: Accept-Encoding X-Pad: avoid browser bug HTTP headers WITH random query string value: http://localhost/script.js?c947344de8278053f6edbb4365550b25 GET /script.js?c947344de8278053f6edbb4365550b25 HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive Referer: http://localhost/ Cookie: PHPSESSID=ke3p35v5qbus24che765p9jni5; HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:14:40 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l DAV/2 PHP/5.3.1 Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:49:56 GMT Etag: "3440e9-119ed-485621404f100" Accept-Ranges: bytes Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 24605 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/javascript

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• Apache won't follow Symlink

  - by Marvin Dickhaus

  I have a LAMP server (Ubuntu 12.10) setup on my development machine. It is a T60 modified with an SSD. The server base is in /var/www. Apache has the following config: DocumentRoot /var/www <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews SymLinksIfOwnerMatch AllowOverride all Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> I'm currently developing a SilverStripe CMS featured site. The folder for the server is /var/www/sfk/. The framework and all cms relavant features are in their respective folders. The only folder that need to be modified would be the /var/www/sfk/mysite folder. Because of that I want to keep the mysite folder under my home directory and symlink it into the server folder. So here is what I've done: ln -s ~/sfk/mysite/ /var/www/sfk/ sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/sfk/mysite -R ls tells me the following: /var/www/sfk (exerpt) drwxr-xr-x 3 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 assets drwxr-xr-x 12 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 cms drwxr-xr-x 29 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 framework -rw-r--r-- 1 marvin www-data 2410 Nov 16 16:53 index.php lrwxrwxrwx 1 marvin www-data 24 Nov 20 17:45 mysite -> /home/marvin/sfk/mysite/ -rw-rw-r-- 1 marvin www-data 514 Nov 16 16:55 _ss_environment.php drwxr-xr-x 4 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 16:53 themes and ls /var/www/sfk/mysite/ drwxrwxr-x 6 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 code drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 11:51 _config -rwxrwxr-x 1 marvin www-data 2685 Nov 16 15:39 _config.php drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 css drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 images drwxrwxr-x 2 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 javascript drwxrwxr-x 5 marvin www-data 4096 Nov 16 00:15 templates This is literally the same setup I have on my desktop machine. The problem I have is that the mysite/ folder is just not recognized. I'm thankful for every advice I get. I'm frustrated because I'm stuck with this issue for hours.

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• configuring mod_proxy_html properly?

  - by tobinjim

  I have an apache2 web server that handles reverse proxy for Rails3 app running on another machine. The setup works except URLs generated within the webapp aren't getting rewritten by my configuration for mod_proxy_html. The ["Reverse Proxy Scenario"][1] is exactly what I'm trying to do, so I've followed the tutorial as completely as I know how. I've applied or tried answers supplied here on stackoverflow, to no effect. According to the "Reverse Proxy Scenario" you want a number of modules loaded. All those instructions are in my httpd.conf file and when I examine the output from apactectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES all the expected modules show in amongst the listing. My external web server doing the reverse proxy is at www.ourdomain.org and the Rails app is internally available at apphost.local (the server is Mac OS X Server 10.6, the rails app server is Mac OS X 10.6). What's working right now is access to the webapp via the reverse proxy as: http://www.ourdomain.org/apphost/railsappname/controllername/action But none of the javascript files, css files or other assets get loaded, and links internal to the web app come out missing the apphost portion of the URL, as if my rewrite rule is configured incorrectly (so of course I've focused on that and can't seem to get anything to be added or deleted in the process of passing the html in from the apphost and out through the Apache server). For instance, hovering over an action link in the html returned by the web app you'll get: http://www.ourdomain.org/railsappname/controllername/action Here's what my Apache directives look like: LoadModule proxy_html_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_proxy_html.so LoadModule xml2enc_module /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_xml2enc.so ProxyHTMLLogVerbose On LogLevel Debug ProxyPass /apphost/ http://apphost.local/ <Location /apphost/> SetOutputFilter INFLATE;proxy-html;DEFLATE ProxyPassReverse / ProxyHTMLExtended On ProxyHTMLURLMap railsappname/ apphost/railsappname/ RequestHeader unset Accept-Encoding </Location> After every change I make to httpd.conf I religiously check apachectl -t just to be sane. I'm definitely not an Apache expert, but all the directives that follow mine seem to not overrule what I'm doing here. But then nothing that I try seems to alter the URLs I see in my browser after hitting the Apache server with a request for my web app. Even if you can't tell what I've done incorrectly, I'd welcome ideas on how to get Apache to help see what it's working on and doing to the html coming from my web app. That's what I understood the ProxyHTMLLogVerbose On and LogLevel Debug to be setting up, but I'm not seeing anything in the log files.

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• Creating a really public Windows network share

  - by Timur Aydin

  I want to create a shared folder under Windows (actually, Windows XP, Vista, and Win 7) which can be mounted from a linux system without prompting for a username/password. But before attempting this, I first wanted to establish that this works between two Windows 7 machines. So, on machine A (The server that will hold the public share), I created a folder and set its permissions such that Everyone has read/write access. Then I visited Control Panel - Network and Sharing Center - Advanced Sharing Settings and then selected "Turn off password protected sharing". Then, on machine B (The client that wants to access the public share with no username/password prompt), I tried to "map network driver" and I was immediately prompted by a password prompt. Some search on google suggested changing "Acconts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only" to "Disabled". Tried that, no luck, still getting username/password prompt. If I enter the username/password, I am not prompted for it again and can use the share as long as the session is active. But still, I really need to access the share without any username/password transaction whatsoever and this is not just a convenience related thing. Here is the actual reason: The device that will access this windows network share is an embedded system running uclinux. It will mount this share locally and then play media files. Its only user interface is a javascript based web page. So, if there is going to be any username/password transaction, I would have to ask the user to enter them over the web page, which will be ridiculously insecure and completely exposed to packet sniffing. After hours of doing experiments, I have found one way to make this happen, but I am not really very fond of it... I first create a new user (shareuser) and give it a password (sharepass). Then I open Group Policy Editor and set "Deny log on locally" to "A\shareuser". Then, I create a folder on A and share it so that shareuser has Read access to it. This way, shareuser cannot login to A, but can access the shared folder. And, if someone discovers the shareuser/sharepass through network sniffing, they can just access the shared folder, but can't logon to A. The same thing can be achieved by enabling the Guest user and then going to Group Policy Editor and deleting the "Guest" from the "Deny access to this computer from the network" setting. Again, Guest can mount the public share, but logging in to A as Guest won't be possible, because Guest is already not allowed to log in by default. So my question would be, how can I create a network share that is truly public, so that it can be mounted from a linux machine without requiring a password? Sorry for the long question, but I wanted to explain the reason for really needing this...

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• How to configure apache's mod_proxy_html to work as an ajax proxy?

  - by dcerecedo

  I'm trying to build a web site that let's you view and manipulate data from any page in any other website. To do that, I have to bypass 'Allow Origin' problems: i'm loading the other domain's content in an iframe and i have to manipulate its content with javascript downloaded from my domain. My first attempt was to write a simple proxy myself, requesting the other domains page through a server proxy coded in Java that not only serves the content but rebuilds links (src's and href's) in the content so that the content referenced by these links alse get downloaded through my handmade proxy. The result is not bad but has problems with url's in css and scripts. It's then that i realized that mod_proxy_html is supposed to do exactly all this job. The problem is that i cannot figure out how to make it work as expected. Let's suppose my server runs in my-domain.com and to proxy and transform content from another domain i'd make a request like this: my-domain.com/proxy?url=http://another-domain.com/some/content I'd want mod_proxy_html to serve the content and rewrite following URLs in http://another-domain.com/some/content in the following ways: Absolute URLs not from another-domain.com: no rewritting Relative from root urls:/other/content - /proxy?url=http://another-domain.com/other/content Relative urls: other/content - /proxy?url=http://another-domain.com/some/content/other/content Relative to parent urls: ../other/content - /proxy?url=http://another-domain.com/some/other/content The url should be specified at runtime, not configuration time. Can this be achieved with mod_proxy_html? Could anyone provide a simple working configuration to start with? EDIT 1-First approach The following site config will work fine with sites that use absolute url's everywhere like http://www.huffingtonpost.es/. Youc could try on this config on localhost: http://localhost/asset/http://www.huffingtonpost.es/ <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost LogLevel debug ProxyRequests off RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/asset/(.*) $1 [P] ProxyHTMLURLMap $1 /asset/ <Location /asset/> ProxyPassReverse / ProxyHTMLURLMap / /asset/ </Location> </VirtualHost> But as explained in the documentation, if I hit a site using relative url's, I'd like to have these rewritten on the html via mod_proxy_html. So I shoud change the Location block as follows: <Location /asset/> ProxyPassReverse / #Depending on your system use one line or the other #Ubuntu: #SetOutputFilter proxy-html #any other system: ProxyHTMLEnable On ProxyHTMLURLMap / /asset/ </Location> ...which doesn't seem to work. Comments, hints and ideas welcome!

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• Will spreading your servers load not just consume more recourses

  - by Saif Bechan

  I am running a heavy real-time updating website. The amount of recourses needed per user are quite high, ill give you an example. Setup Every visit The application is php/mysql so on every visit static and dynamic content is loaded. Recourses: apache,php,mysql Every second (no more than a second will just be too long) The website needs to be updated real-time so every second there is an ajax call thats updates the website. Recourses: jQuery,apache,php,mysql Avarage spending for single user (spending one minute and visited 3 pages) Apache: +/- 63 requests / responsess serving static and dynamic content (img,css,js,html) php: +/- 63 requests / responses mysql: +/- 63 requests / responses jquery: +/- 60 requests / responses Optimization I want to optimize this process, but I think that maybe it would be just the same in the end. Before implementing and testing (which will take weeks) I wanted to have some second opinions from you guys. Every visit I want to start off with having nginx in the front and work as a proxy to deliver the static content. Recources: Dynamic: apache,php,mysql Static: nginx This will spread the load on apache a lot. Every Second For the script that loads every second I want to set up Node.js server side javascript with nginx in te front. I want to set it up that jquery makes a request ones a minute, and node.js streams the data to the client every second. Recources: jQuery,nginx,node.js,mysql Avarage spending for single user (spending one minute and visited 3 pages) Nginx: 4 requests / responsess serving mostly static conetent(img,css,js) Apache: 3 requests only the pages php: 3 requests only the pages node.js: 1 request / 60 responses jquery: 1 request / 60 responses mysql: 63 requests / responses Optimization As you can see in the optimisation the load from Apache and PHP are lifted and places on nginx and node.js. These are known for there light footprint and good performance. But I am having my doubts, because there are still 2 programs extra loaded in the memory and they consume cpu. So it it better to have less programs that do the job, or more. Before I am going to spend a lot of time setting this up I would like to know if it will be worth the while.

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• Use ASP.NET 4 Browser Definitions with ASP.NET 3.5

  - by Stephen Walther

  We updated the browser definitions files included with ASP.NET 4 to include information on recent browsers and devices such as Google Chrome and the iPhone. You can use these browser definition files with earlier versions of ASP.NET such as ASP.NET 3.5. The updated browser definition files, and instructions for installing them, can be found here: http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/41420 The changes in the browser definition files can cause backwards compatibility issues when you upgrade an ASP.NET 3.5 web application to ASP.NET 4. If you encounter compatibility issues, you can install the old browser definition files in your ASP.NET 4 application. The old browser definition files are included in the download file referenced above. What’s New in the ASP.NET 4 Browser Definition Files The complete set of browsers supported by the new ASP.NET 4 browser definition files is represented by the following figure:     If you look carefully at the figure, you’ll notice that we added browser definitions for several types of recent browsers such as Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.5, Google Chrome, Opera 10, and Safari 4. Furthermore, notice that we now include browser definitions for several of the most popular mobile devices: BlackBerry, IPhone, IPod, and Windows Mobile (IEMobile). The mobile devices appear in the figure with a purple background color. To improve performance, we removed a whole lot of outdated browser definitions for old cell phones and mobile devices. We also cleaned up the information contained in the browser files. Here are some of the browser features that you can detect: Are you a mobile device? <%=Request.Browser.IsMobileDevice %> Are you an IPhone? <%=Request.Browser.MobileDeviceModel == "IPhone" %> What version of JavaScript do you support? <%=Request.Browser["javascriptversion"] %> What layout engine do you use? <%=Request.Browser["layoutEngine"] %>   Here’s what you would get if you displayed the value of these properties using Internet Explorer 8: Here’s what you get when you use Google Chrome: Testing Browser Settings When working with browser definition files, it is useful to have some way to test the capability information returned when you request a page with different browsers. You can use the following method to return the HttpBrowserCapabilities the corresponds to a particular user agent string and set of browser headers: public HttpBrowserCapabilities GetBrowserCapabilities(string userAgent, NameValueCollection headers) { HttpBrowserCapabilities browserCaps = new HttpBrowserCapabilities(); Hashtable hashtable = new Hashtable(180, StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase); hashtable[string.Empty] = userAgent; // The actual method uses client target browserCaps.Capabilities = hashtable; var capsFactory = new System.Web.Configuration.BrowserCapabilitiesFactory(); capsFactory.ConfigureBrowserCapabilities(headers, browserCaps); capsFactory.ConfigureCustomCapabilities(headers, browserCaps); return browserCaps; } At the end of this blog entry, there is a link to download a simple Visual Studio 2008 project – named Browser Definition Test -- that uses this method to display capability information for arbitrary user agent strings. For example, if you enter the user agent string for an iPhone then you get the results in the following figure: The Browser Definition Test application enables you to submit a user-agent string and display a table of browser capabilities information. The browser definition files contain sample user-agent strings for each browser definition. I got the iPhone user-agent string from the comments in the iphone.browser file. Enumerating Browser Definitions Someone asked in the comments whether or not there is a way to enumerate all of the browser definitions. You can do this if you ware willing to use a little reflection and read a private property. The browser definition files in the config\browsers folder get parsed into a class named BrowserCapabilitesFactory. After you run the aspnet_regbrowsers tool, you can see the source for this class in the config\browser folder by opening a file named BrowserCapsFactory.cs. The BrowserCapabilitiesFactoryBase class has a protected property named BrowserElements that represents a Hashtable of all of the browser definitions. Here's how you can read this protected property and display the ID for all of the browser definitions: var propInfo = typeof(BrowserCapabilitiesFactory).GetProperty("BrowserElements", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance); Hashtable browserDefinitions = (Hashtable)propInfo.GetValue(new BrowserCapabilitiesFactory(), null); foreach (var key in browserDefinitions.Keys) { Response.Write("" + key); } If you run this code using Visual Studio 2008 then you get the following results: You get a huge number of outdated browsers and devices. In all, 449 browser definitions are listed. If you run this code using Visual Studio 2010 then you get the following results: In the case of Visual Studio 2010, all the old browsers and devices have been removed and you get only 19 browser definitions. Conclusion The updated browser definition files included in ASP.NET 4 provide more accurate information for recent browsers and devices. If you would like to test the new browser definitions with different user-agent strings then I recommend that you download the Browser Definition Test project: Browser Definition Test Project

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• March 21st Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight

  - by ScottGu

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series. If you haven’t already, check out this month’s "Find a Hoster” page on the www.asp.net website to learn about great (and very inexpensive) ASP.NET hosting offers.  [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] ASP.NET URL Routing in ASP.NET 4: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that talks about the new URL routing features coming to Web Forms applications with ASP.NET 4.  Also check out my previous blog post on this topic. Control of Web Control ClientID Values in ASP.NET 4: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that describes how it is now easy to control the client “id” value emitted by server controls with ASP.NET 4. Web Deployment Made Awesome: Very nice MIX10 talk by Scott Hanselman on the new web deployment features coming with VS 2010, MSDeploy, and .NET 4.  Makes deploying web applications much, much easier. ASP.NET 4’s Browser Capabilities Support: Nice blog post by Stephen Walther that talks about the new browser definition capabilities support coming with ASP.NET 4. Integrating Twitter into an ASP.NET Website: Nice article by Scott Mitchell that demonstrates how to call and integrate Twitter from within your ASP.NET applications. Improving CSS with .LESS: Nice article by Scott Mitchell that describes how to optimize CSS using .LESS – a free, open source library. ASP.NET MVC Upgrading ASP.NET MVC 1 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2: Eilon Lipton from the ASP.NET team has a nice post that describes how to easily upgrade your ASP.NET MVC 1 applications to ASP.NET MVC 2.  He has an automated tool that makes this easy. Note that automated MVC upgrade support is also built-into VS 2010.  Use the tool in this blog post for updating existing MVC projects using VS 2008. Advanced ASP.NET MVC 2: Nice video talk by Brad Wilson of the ASP.NET MVC team.  In it he describes some of the more advanced features in ASP.NET MVC 2 and how to maximize your productivity with them. Dynamic Select Lists with ASP.NET MVC and jQuery: Michael Ceranski has a nice blog post that describes how to dynamically populate dropdownlists on the client using AJAX. AJAX Microsoft AJAX Minifier: We recently shipped an updated minifier utility that allows you to shrink/minify both JavaScript and CSS files – which can improve the performance of your web applications.  You can run this either manually as a command-line tool or now automatically integrate it using a Visual Studio build task.  You can download it for free here. Visual Studio VS 2010 Tip: Quickly Closing Documents: Nice blog post that describes some techniques for optimizing how windows are closed with the new VS 2010 IDE. Collpase to Definitions with Outlining: Nice tip from Zain on how to collapse your code editor to outline mode using Ctrl + M, Ctrl + O.  Also check out his post on copy/paste with outlining here. $299 VS 2010 Upgrade Offer for VS 2005/2008 Standard Users: Soma blogs about a nice VS 2010 upgrade offer you can take advantage of if you have VS 2005 or VS 2008 Standard editions.  For $299 you can upgrade to VS 2010 Professional edition. Dependency Graphics: Jason Zander (who runs the VS team) has a nice blog post that covers the new dependency graph support within VS 2010.  This makes it easier to visualize the dependencies within your application.  Also check out this video here. Layer Validation: Jason Zander has a nice blog post that talks about the new layer validation features in VS 2010.  This enables you to enforce cleaner layering within your projects and solutions.  VS 2010 Profiler Blog: The VS 2010 Profiler Team has their own blog and on it you can find a bunch of nice posts from the last few months that talk about a lot of the new features coming with VS 2010’s Profiler support.  Some really nice features coming. Silverlight Silverlight 4 Training Course: Nice free set of training courses from Microsoft that can help bring you up to speed on all of the new Silverlight 4 features and how to build applications with them.  Updated and current with the recently released Silverlight 4 RC build and tools. Getting Started with Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Development: Nice blog post by Tim Heuer that summarizes how to get started building Windows Phone 7 applications using Silverlight.  Also check out my blog post from last week on how to build a Windows Phone 7 Twitter application using Silverlight. A Guide to What Has Changed with the Silverlight 4 RC: Nice summary post by Tim Heuer that describes all of the things that have changed between the Silverlight 4 Beta and the Silverlight 4 RC. Path Based Layout - Part 1 and Part 2: Christian Schormann has a nice blog post about a really cool new feature in Expression Blend 4 and Silverlight 4 called Path Layout. Also check out Andy Beaulieu’s blog post on this. Hope this helps, Scott

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• Chester Devs Presentation and source code &ndash; &lsquo;Event Store - an introduction to a DSD for event sourcing and notifications&rsquo;

  - by Liam Westley

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers/archive/2013/11/11/chester-devs-presentation-and-source-code-ndash-lsquoevent-store.aspxThank you everyone at Chester Devs Thanks to Fran Hoey and all the people from Chester Devs. It was a hard drive up and back but the enthusiasm of the audience, with some great questions does make it worthwhile. Presentation and source code My presentation, source code, Event Store runners and text files containing the various command line parameters used for curl is now available on GitHub; https://github.com/westleyl/ChesterDevs-EventStore. Don’t worry if you don’t have a GitHub account, you don’t need one, you can just click on the Download Zip button on the right hand menu to download all the files as a single ZIP file.  If all you want is the PowerPoint presentation, go to https://github.com/westleyl/ChesterDevs-EventStore/blob/master/Powerpoint/Huddle-EventStore.pptx, and click on the View Raw button. Downloading and installing Event Store and Tools Download Event Store http://download.geteventstore.com – I unzipped these files into C:\EventStore\v2.0.1 Download Curl from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html – I downloaded Win64 Generic (with SSL) and unzipped these files into C:\curl version 7.31.0 Running the tools I used in my presentation Demonstration 1 (running Event Store) You can use one of my Event Store runner command files to run the single node version of Event Store, using default ports of 2213 for HTTP and 1113  for TCP, and with a wildcard HTTP pattern.  Both take a single command line parameter to specify the location of the data and log files.  The runners assume the single node executable is located in C:\EventStore\v2.0.1, and will placed data files and logs beneath C:\EventStore\Data, i.e. RunEventStore.cmd TestData1 This will create data files in C:\EventStore\Data\TestData1\Data and log files in C:\EventStore\Data\TestData1\logs. If, when running Event Store you may see the following message, [03288,15,06:23:00.622] Failed to start http server Access is denied You will either need to run Event Store in an administrator console window, or you can use the netsh command to create a firewall permission to allow HTTP listening (this will need to be run, once, in an administrator console window), netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:2213/ user=liam You can always delete this later by running the delete; netsh http delete urlacl url=http://*:2213/ If you want to confirm that everything is running OK, open the management console in a browser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:2213. If at any point you are asked for a user name and password use the default of ‘admin’/‘changeit’. Demonstration 2 (reading and adding data, curl) In my second demonstration I used curl directly from the console to read streams, write events and then read back those events. On GitHub I have included is a set of curl commands, CurlCommandLine.txt, and a sample data file, SampleData.json, to load an event into a DDDNorth3 stream. As there is not much data in the Event Store at this point I used the $stats-127.0.0.1:2113 which is a stream containing performance statistics for Event Store and is updated every 30 seconds (default). Demonstration 3 (projections) On GitHub I have included a sample projection, Projection-ByRoom.txt, which will create streams based on the room on which a session was held on the DDDNorth3 agenda. Browse to the management console, http://127.0.0.1:2213.  Click on Projections, New Projection, give it a name, Sessions-ByRoom, and copy in the JavaScript in the Projection-ByRoom.txt file.  Select Continuous, tick Emit Enabled and then click on Post. It should run immediately. You may by challenged for the administration login for the management console, if so use the default user name and password; 'admin'/'changeit'. Demonstration 4 (C# client) The final demonstration was the Visual Studio 2012 project using the Event Store client – referenced directly as C:\EventStore\v2.0.1\EventStore.ClientAPI.dll, although you can switch this to the latest Event Store client NuGet package. The source code provides a console app for viewing projections with the projection manager (HTTP connection), as well as containing a full set of data for the entire DDDNorth3 agenda.  It also deals with the strategy for reading newest events backwards to older events and ignoring older events that have been superseded. Resources Event Store home page: http://www.geteventstore.com/ Event Store source code on GitHub: https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore Event Store documentation on GitHub: https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore/wiki (includes index to @RobAshton’s blog series on Event Store at https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore/wiki#rob-ashton---projections-series) Event Store forum in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/event-store TopShelf Windows service wrapper is available on github: https://gist.github.com/trbngr/5083266

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• DDD North 3 Presentation and source code &ndash; &lsquo;Event Store - an introduction to a DSD for event sourcing and notifications&rsquo;

  - by Liam Westley

  Originally posted on: http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers/archive/2013/10/15/ddd-north-3-presentation-and-source-code-ndash-lsquoevent-store.aspxThank you everyone at DDD North Thanks to all the people who helped organise the cracking conference that is DDD North 3, returning to Sunderland, and the great facilities at the University of Sunderland, and the fine drinks reception at Sunderland Software City.  The whole event wouldn’t be possible without the sponsors who ensured over 400 people were kept fed and watered so they could enjoy the impressive range of sessions. And lastly, a thank you to all those delegates who gave up their free time on a Saturday to spend a day dashing between lecture rooms, including a late change to my room which saw 40 people having to brave a journey between buildings in the fine drizzle. The enthusiasm from the delegates always helps recharge my geek batteries. Presentation and source code My presentation, source code, Event Store runners and text files containing the various command line parameters used for curl is now available on GitHub; https://github.com/westleyl/DDDNorth3-EventStore. Don’t worry if you don’t have a GitHub account, you don’t need one, you can just click on the Download Zip button on the right hand menu to download all the files as a single ZIP file.  If all you want is the PowerPoint presentation, go to https://github.com/westleyl/DDDNorth3-EventStore/blob/master/Powerpoint/DDDNorth-EventStore.pptx, and click on the View Raw button. Downloading and installing Event Store and Tools Download Event Store http://download.geteventstore.com – I unzipped these files into C:\EventStore\v2.0.1 Download Curl from http://curl.haxx.se/download.html – I downloaded Win64 Generic (with SSL) and unzipped these files into C:\curl version 7.31.0 Running the tools I used in my presentation Demonstration 1 (running Event Store) You can use one of my Event Store runner command files to run the single node version of Event Store, using default ports of 2213 for HTTP and 1113  for TCP, and with a wildcard HTTP pattern.  Both take a single command line parameter to specify the location of the data and log files.  The runners assume the single node executable is located in C:\EventStore\v2.0.1, and will placed data files and logs beneath C:\EventStore\Data, i.e. RunEventStore.cmd TestData1 This will create data files in C:\EventStore\Data\TestData1\Data and log files in C:\EventStore\Data\TestData1\logs. If, when running Event Store you may see the following message, [03288,15,06:23:00.622] Failed to start http server Access is denied You will either need to run Event Store in an administrator console window, or you can use the netsh command to create a firewall permission to allow HTTP listening (this will need to be run, once, in an administrator console window), netsh http add urlacl url=http://*:2213/ user=liam You can always delete this later by running the delete; netsh http delete urlacl url=http://*:2213/ If you want to confirm that everything is running OK, open the management console in a browser by navigating to http://127.0.0.1:2213. If at any point you are asked for a user name and password use the default of ‘admin’/‘changeit’.   Demonstration 2 (reading and adding data, curl) In my second demonstration I used curl directly from the console to read streams, write events and then read back those events. On GitHub I have included is a set of curl commands, CurlCommandLine.txt, and a sample data file, SampleData.json, to load an event into a DDDNorth3 stream. As there is not much data in the Event Store at this point I used the $stats-127.0.0.1:2113 which is a stream containing performance statistics for Event Store and is updated every 30 seconds (default). Demonstration 3 (projections) On GitHub I have included a sample projection, Projection-ByRoom.txt, which will create streams based on the room on which a session was held on the DDDNorth3 agenda. Browse to the management console, http://127.0.0.1:2213.  Click on Projections, New Projection, give it a name, Sessions-ByRoom, and copy in the JavaScript in the Projection-ByRoom.txt file.  Select Continuous, tick Emit Enabled and then click on Post. It should run immediately. You may by challenged for the administration login for the management console, if so use the default user name and password; 'admin'/'changeit'.   Demonstration 4 (C# client) The final demonstration was the Visual Studio 2012 project using the Event Store client – referenced directly as C:\EventStore\v2.0.1\EventStore.ClientAPI.dll, although you can switch this to the latest Event Store client NuGet package. The source code provides a console app for viewing projections with the projection manager (HTTP connection), as well as containing a full set of data for the entire DDDNorth3 agenda.  It also deals with the strategy for reading newest events backwards to older events and ignoring older events that have been superseded. Resources Event Store home page: http://www.geteventstore.com/ Event Store source code on GitHub: https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore Event Store documentation on GitHub: https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore/wiki (includes index to @RobAshton’s blog series on Event Store at https://github.com/eventstore/eventstore/wiki#rob-ashton---projections-series) Event Store forum in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/event-store TopShelf Windows service wrapper is available on github: https://gist.github.com/trbngr/5083266

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• Pre-filtering and shaping OData feeds using WCF Data Services and the Entity Framework - Part 2

  - by rajbk

  In the previous post, you saw how to create an OData feed and pre-filter the data. In this post, we will see how to shape the data. A sample project is attached at the bottom of this post. Pre-filtering and shaping OData feeds using WCF Data Services and the Entity Framework - Part 1 Shaping the feed The Product feed we created earlier returns too much information about our products. Let’s change this so that only the following properties are returned – ProductID, ProductName, QuantityPerUnit, UnitPrice, UnitsInStock. We also want to return only Products that are not discontinued.  Splitting the Entity To shape our data according to the requirements above, we are going to split our Product Entity into two and expose one through the feed. The exposed entity will contain only the properties listed above. We will use the other Entity in our Query Interceptor to pre-filter the data so that discontinued products are not returned. Go to the design surface for the Entity Model and make a copy of the Product entity. A “Product1” Entity gets created.   Rename Product1 to ProductDetail. Right click on the Product entity and select “Add Association” Make a one to one association between Product and ProductDetails.   Keep only the properties we wish to expose on the Product entity and delete all other properties on it (see diagram below). You delete a property on an Entity by right clicking on the property and selecting “delete”. Keep the ProductID on the ProductDetail. Delete any other property on the ProductDetail entity that is already present in the Product entity. Your design surface should look like below:    Mapping Entity to Database Tables Right click on “ProductDetail” and go to “Table Mapping”   Add a mapping to the “Products” table in the Mapping Details.   After mapping ProductDetail, you should see the following.   Add a referential constraint. Lets add a referential constraint which is similar to a referential integrity constraint in SQL. Double click on the Association between the Entities and add the constraint with “Principal” set to “Product”. Let us review what we did so far. We made a copy of the Product entity and called it ProductDetail We created a one to one association between these entities Excluding the ProductID, we made sure properties were not duplicated between these entities  We added a ProductDetail entity to Products table mapping (Entity to Database). We added a referential constraint between the entities. Lets build our project. We get the following error: ”'NortwindODataFeed.Product' does not contain a definition for 'Discontinued' and no extension method 'Discontinued' accepting a first argument of type 'NortwindODataFeed.Product' could be found …" The reason for this error is because our Product Entity no longer has a “Discontinued” property. We “moved” it to the ProductDetail entity since we want our Product Entity to contain only properties that will be exposed by our feed. Since we have a one to one association between the entities, we can easily rewrite our Query Interceptor like so: [QueryInterceptor("Products")] public Expression<Func<Product, bool>> OnReadProducts() { return o => o.ProductDetail.Discontinued == false; } Similarly, all “hidden” properties of the Product table are available to us internally (through the ProductDetail Entity) for any additional logic we wish to implement. Compile the project and view the feed. We see that the feed returns only the properties that were part of the requirement.   To see the data in JSON format, you have to create a request with the following request header Accept: application/json, text/javascript, */* (easy to do in jQuery) The result should look like this: { "d" : { "results": [ { "__metadata": { "uri": "http://localhost.:2576/DataService.svc/Products(1)", "type": "NorthwindModel.Product" }, "ProductID": 1, "ProductName": "Chai", "QuantityPerUnit": "10 boxes x 20 bags", "UnitPrice": "18.0000", "UnitsInStock": 39 }, { "__metadata": { "uri": "http://localhost.:2576/DataService.svc/Products(2)", "type": "NorthwindModel.Product" }, "ProductID": 2, "ProductName": "Chang", "QuantityPerUnit": "24 - 12 oz bottles", "UnitPrice": "19.0000", "UnitsInStock": 17 }, { ... ... If anyone has the $format operation working, please post a comment. It was not working for me at the time of writing this.  We have successfully pre-filtered our data to expose only products that have not been discontinued and shaped our data so that only certain properties of the Entity are exposed. Note that there are several other ways you could implement this like creating a QueryView, Stored Procedure or DefiningQuery. You have seen how easy it is to create an OData feed, shape the data and pre-filter it by hardly writing any code of your own. For more details on OData, Google it with your favorite search engine :-) Also check out the one of the most passionate persons I have ever met, Pablo Castro – the Architect of Aristoria WCF Data Services. Watch his MIX 2010 presentation titled “OData: There's a Feed for That” here. Download Sample Project for VS 2010 RTM NortwindODataFeed.zip

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• Figuring out the IIS Version for a given OS in .NET Code

  - by Rick Strahl

  Here's an odd requirement: I need to figure out what version of IIS is available on a given machine in order to take specific configuration actions when installing an IIS based application. I build several configuration tools for application configuration and installation and depending on which version of IIS is available on IIS different configuration paths are taken. For example, when dealing with XP machine you can't set up an Application Pool for an application because XP (IIS 5.1) didn't support Application pools. Configuring 32 and 64 bit settings are easy in IIS 7 but this didn't work in prior versions and so on. Along the same lines I saw a question on the AspInsiders list today, regarding a similar issue where somebody needed to know the IIS version as part of an ASP.NET application prior to when the Request object is available. So it's useful to know which version of IIS you can possibly expect. This should be easy right? But it turns there's no real easy way to detect IIS on a machine. There's no registry key that gives you the full version number - you can detect installation but not which version is installed. The easiest way: Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] The easiest way to determine IIS version number is if you are already running inside of ASP.NET and you are inside of an ASP.NET request. You can look at Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_SOFTWARE"] to get a string like Microsoft-IIS/7.5 returned to you. It's a cinch to parse this to retrieve the version number. This works in the limited scenario where you need to know the version number inside of a running ASP.NET application. Unfortunately this is not a likely use case, since most times when you need to know a specific version of IIS when you are configuring or installing your application. The messy way: Match Windows OS Versions to IIS Versions Since Version 5.x of IIS versions of IIS have always been tied very closely to the Operating System. Meaning the only way to get a specific version of IIS was through the OS - you couldn't install another version of IIS on the given OS. Microsoft has a page that describes the OS version to IIS version relationship here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224609 In .NET you can then sniff the OS version and based on that return the IIS version. The following is a small utility function that accomplishes the task of returning an IIS version number for a given OS: /// <summary> /// Returns the IIS version for the given Operating System. /// Note this routine doesn't check to see if IIS is installed /// it just returns the version of IIS that should run on the OS. /// /// Returns the value from Request.ServerVariables["Server_Software"] /// if available. Otherwise uses OS sniffing to determine OS version /// and returns IIS version instead. /// </summary> /// <returns>version number or -1 </returns> public static decimal GetIisVersion() { // if running inside of IIS parse the SERVER_SOFTWARE key // This would be most reliable if (HttpContext.Current != null && HttpContext.Current.Request != null) { string os = HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["SERVER_SOFTWARE"]; if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(os)) { //Microsoft-IIS/7.5 int dash = os.LastIndexOf("/"); if (dash > 0) { decimal iisVer = 0M; if (Decimal.TryParse(os.Substring(dash + 1), out iisVer)) return iisVer; } } } decimal osVer = (decimal) Environment.OSVersion.Version.Major + ((decimal) Environment.OSVersion.Version.MajorRevision / 10); // Windows 7 and Win2008 R2 if (osVer == 6.1M) return 7.5M; // Windows Vista and Windows 2008 else if (osVer == 6.0M) return 7.0M; // Windows 2003 and XP 64 bit else if (osVer == 5.2M) return 6.0M; // Windows XP else if (osVer == 5.1M) return 5.1M; // Windows 2000 else if (osVer == 5.0M) return 5.0M; // error result return -1M; } } Talk about a brute force apporach, but it works. This code goes only back to IIS 5 - anything before that is not something you possibly would want to have running. :-) Note that this is updated through Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2. Later versions will need to be added as needed. Anybody know what the Windows Version number of Windows 8 is?© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2011Posted in ASP.NET  IIS   Tweet (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• .NET 3.5 Installation Problems in Windows 8

  - by Rick Strahl

  Windows 8 installs with .NET 4.5. A default installation of Windows 8 doesn't seem to include .NET 3.0 or 3.5, although .NET 2.0 does seem to be available by default (presumably because Windows has app dependencies on that). I ran into some pretty nasty compatibility issues regarding .NET 3.5 which I'll describe in this post. I'll preface this by saying that depending on how you install Windows 8 you may not run into these issues. In fact, it's probably a special case, but one that might be common with developer folks reading my blog. Specifically it's the install order that screwed things up for me -  installing Visual Studio before explicitly installing .NET 3.5 from Windows Features - in particular. If you install Visual Studio 2010 I highly recommend you install .NET 3.5 from Windows features BEFORE you install Visual Studio 2010 and save yourself the trouble I went through. So when I installed Windows 8, and then looked at the Windows Features to install after the fact in the Windows Feature dialog, I thought - .NET 3.5 - who needs it. I'd be happy to not have to install .NET 3.5, but unfortunately I found out quite a while after initial installation that one of my applications/tools (DevExpress's awesome CodeRush) depends on it and won't install without it. Enabling .NET 3.5 in Windows 8 If you want to run .NET 3.5 on Windows 8, don't download an installer - those installers don't work on Windows 8, and you don't need to do this because you can use the Windows Features dialog to enable .NET 3.5: And that *should* do the trick. If you do this before you install other apps that require .NET 3.5 and install a non-SP1 one version of it, you are going to have no problems. Unfortunately for me, even after I've installed the above, when I run the CodeRush installer I still get this lovely dialog: Now I double checked to see if .NET 3.5 is installed - it is, both for 32 bit and 64 bit. I went as far as creating a small .NET Console app and running it to verify that it actually runs. And it does… So naturally I thought the CodeRush installer is a little whacky. After some back and forth Alex Skorkin on Twitter pointed me in the right direction: He asked me to look in the registry for exact info on which version of .NET 3.5 is installed here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP where I found that .NET 3.5 SP1 was installed. This is the 64 bit key which looks all correct. However, when I looked under the 32 bit node I found: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.5 Notice that the service pack number is set to 0, rather than 1 (which it was for the 64 bit install), which is what the installer requires. So to summarize: the 64 bit version is installed with SP1, the 32 bit version is not. Uhm, Ok… thanks for that! Easy to fix, you say - just install SP1. Nope, not so easy because the standalone installer doesn't work on Windows 8. I can't get either .NET 3.5 installer or the SP 1 installer to even launch. They simply start and hang (or exit immediately) without messages. I also tried to get Windows to update .NET 3.5 by checking for Windows Updates, which should pick up on the dated version of .NET 3.5 and pull down SP1, but that's also no go. Check for Updates doesn't bring down any updates for me yet. I'm sure at some random point in the future Windows will deem it necessary to update .NET 3.5 to SP1, but at this point it's not letting me coerce it to do it explicitly. How did this happen I'm not sure exactly whether this is the cause and effect, but I suspect the story goes like this: Installed Windows 8 without support for .NET 3.5 Installed Visual Studio 2010 which installs .NET 3.5 (no SP) I now had .NET 3.5 installed but without SP1. I then: Tried to install CodeRush - Error: .NET 3.5 SP1 required Enabled .NET 3.5 in Windows Features I figured enabling the .NET 3.5 Windows Features would do the trick. But still no go. Now I suspect Visual Studio installed the 32 bit version of .NET 3.5 on my machine and Windows Features detected the previous install and didn't reinstall it. This left the 32 bit install at least with no SP1 installed. How to Fix it My final solution was to completely uninstall .NET 3.5 *and* to reboot: Go to Windows Features Uncheck the .NET Framework 3.5 Restart Windows Go to Windows Features Check .NET Framework 3.5 and voila, I now have a proper installation of .NET 3.5. I tried this before but without the reboot step in between which did not work. Make sure you reboot between uninstalling and reinstalling .NET 3.5! More Problems The above fixed me right up, but in looking for a solution it seems that a lot of people are also having problems with .NET 3.5 installing properly from the Windows Features dialog. The problem there is that the feature wasn't properly loading from the installer disks or not downloading the proper components for updates. It turns out you can explicitly install Windows features using the DISM tool in Windows.dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:f:\sources\sxs You can try this without the /Source flag first - which uses the hidden Windows installer files if you kept those. Otherwise insert the DVD or ISO and point at the path \sources\sxs path where the installer lives. This also gives you a little more information if something does go wrong.© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in Windows  .NET   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• Internet Explorer and Cookie Domains

  - by Rick Strahl

  I've been bitten by some nasty issues today in regards to using a domain cookie as part of my FormsAuthentication operations. In the app I'm currently working on we need to have single sign-on that spans multiple sub-domains (www.domain.com, store.domain.com, mail.domain.com etc.). That's what a domain cookie is meant for - when you set the cookie with a Domain value of the base domain the cookie stays valid for all sub-domains. I've been testing the app for quite a while and everything is working great. Finally I get around to checking the app with Internet Explorer and I start discovering some problems - specifically on my local machine using localhost. It appears that Internet Explorer (all versions) doesn't allow you to specify a domain of localhost, a local IP address or machine name. When you do, Internet Explorer simply ignores the cookie. In my last post I talked about some generic code I created to basically parse out the base domain from the current URL so a domain cookie would automatically used using this code:private void IssueAuthTicket(UserState userState, bool rememberMe) { FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, userState.UserId, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Now.AddDays(10), rememberMe, userState.ToString()); string ticketString = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket); HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, ticketString); cookie.HttpOnly = true; if (rememberMe) cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(10); var domain = Request.Url.GetBaseDomain(); if (domain != Request.Url.DnsSafeHost) cookie.Domain = domain; HttpContext.Response.Cookies.Add(cookie); } This code works fine on all browsers but Internet Explorer both locally and on full domains. And it also works fine for Internet Explorer with actual 'real' domains. However, this code fails silently for IE when the domain is localhost or any other local address. In that case Internet Explorer simply refuses to accept the cookie and fails to log in. Argh! The end result is that the solution above trying to automatically parse the base domain won't work as local addresses end up failing. Configuration Setting Given this screwed up state of affairs, the best solution to handle this is a configuration setting. Forms Authentication actually has a domain key that can be set for FormsAuthentication so that's natural choice for the storing the domain name: <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login" name="gnc" domain="mydomain.com" slidingExpiration="true" timeout="30" xdt:Transform="Replace"/> </authentication> Although I'm not actually letting FormsAuth set my cookie directly I can still access the domain name from the static FormsAuthentication.CookieDomain property, by changing the domain assignment code to:if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(FormsAuthentication.CookieDomain)) cookie.Domain = FormsAuthentication.CookieDomain; The key is to only set the domain when actually running on a full authority, and leaving the domain key blank on the local machine to avoid the local address debacle. Note if you want to see this fail with IE, set the domain to domain="localhost" and watch in Fiddler what happens. Logging Out When specifying a domain key for a login it's also vitally important that that same domain key is used when logging out. Forms Authentication will do this automatically for you when the domain is set and you use FormsAuthentication.SignOut(). If you use an explicit Cookie to manage your logins or other persistant value, make sure that when you log out you also specify the domain. IOW, the expiring cookie you set for a 'logout' should match the same settings - name, path, domain - as the cookie you used to set the value.HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("gne", ""); cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-5); // make sure we use the same logic to release cookie var domain = Request.Url.GetBaseDomain(); if (domain != Request.Url.DnsSafeHost) cookie.Domain = domain; HttpContext.Response.Cookies.Add(cookie); I managed to get my code to do what I needed it to, but man I'm getting so sick and tired of fixing IE only bugs. I spent most of the day today fixing a number of small IE layout bugs along with this issue which took a bit of time to trace down.© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2012Posted in ASP.NET   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• Rendering ASP.NET MVC Razor Views outside of MVC revisited

  - by Rick Strahl

  Last year I posted a detailed article on how to render Razor Views to string both inside of ASP.NET MVC and outside of it. In that article I showed several different approaches to capture the rendering output. The first and easiest is to use an existing MVC Controller Context to render a view by simply passing the controller context which is fairly trivial and I demonstrated a simple ViewRenderer class that simplified the process down to a couple lines of code. However, if no Controller Context is available the process is not quite as straight forward and I referenced an old, much more complex example that uses my RazorHosting library, which is a custom self-contained implementation of the Razor templating engine that can be hosted completely outside of ASP.NET. While it works inside of ASP.NET, it’s an awkward solution when running inside of ASP.NET, because it requires a bit of setup to run efficiently.Well, it turns out that I missed something in the original article, namely that it is possible to create a ControllerContext, if you have a controller instance, even if MVC didn’t create that instance. Creating a Controller Instance outside of MVCThe trick to make this work is to create an MVC Controller instance – any Controller instance – and then configure a ControllerContext through that instance. As long as an HttpContext.Current is available it’s possible to create a fully functional controller context as Razor can get all the necessary context information from the HttpContextWrapper().The key to make this work is the following method:/// <summary> /// Creates an instance of an MVC controller from scratch /// when no existing ControllerContext is present /// </summary> /// <typeparam name="T">Type of the controller to create</typeparam> /// <returns>Controller Context for T</returns> /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">thrown if HttpContext not available</exception> public static T CreateController<T>(RouteData routeData = null) where T : Controller, new() { // create a disconnected controller instance T controller = new T(); // get context wrapper from HttpContext if available HttpContextBase wrapper = null; if (HttpContext.Current != null) wrapper = new HttpContextWrapper(System.Web.HttpContext.Current); else throw new InvalidOperationException( "Can't create Controller Context if no active HttpContext instance is available."); if (routeData == null) routeData = new RouteData(); // add the controller routing if not existing if (!routeData.Values.ContainsKey("controller") && !routeData.Values.ContainsKey("Controller")) routeData.Values.Add("controller", controller.GetType().Name .ToLower() .Replace("controller", "")); controller.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext(wrapper, routeData, controller); return controller; }This method creates an instance of a Controller class from an existing HttpContext which means this code should work from anywhere within ASP.NET to create a controller instance that’s ready to be rendered. This means you can use this from within an Application_Error handler as I needed to or even from within a WebAPI controller as long as it’s running inside of ASP.NET (ie. not self-hosted). Nice.So using the ViewRenderer class from the previous article I can now very easily render an MVC view outside of the context of MVC. Here’s what I ended up in my Application’s custom error HttpModule: protected override void OnDisplayError(WebErrorHandler errorHandler, ErrorViewModel model) { var Response = HttpContext.Current.Response; Response.ContentType = "text/html"; Response.StatusCode = errorHandler.OriginalHttpStatusCode; var context = ViewRenderer.CreateController<ErrorController>().ControllerContext; var renderer = new ViewRenderer(context); string html = renderer.RenderView("~/Views/Shared/GenericError.cshtml", model); Response.Write(html); }That’s pretty sweet, because it’s now possible to use ViewRenderer just about anywhere in any ASP.NET application, not only inside of controller code. This also allows the constructor for the ViewRenderer from the last article to work without a controller context parameter, using a generic view as a base for the controller context when not passed:public ViewRenderer(ControllerContext controllerContext = null) { // Create a known controller from HttpContext if no context is passed if (controllerContext == null) { if (HttpContext.Current != null) controllerContext = CreateController<ErrorController>().ControllerContext; else throw new InvalidOperationException( "ViewRenderer must run in the context of an ASP.NET " + "Application and requires HttpContext.Current to be present."); } Context = controllerContext; }In this case I use the ErrorController class which is a generic controller instance that exists in the same assembly as my ViewRenderer class and that works just fine since ‘generically’ rendered views tend to not rely on anything from the controller other than the model which is explicitly passed.While these days most of my apps use MVC I do still have a number of generic pieces in most of these applications where Razor comes in handy. This includes modules like the above, which when they error often need to display error output. In other cases I need to generate string template output for emailing or logging data to disk. Being able to render simply render an arbitrary View to and pass in a model makes this super nice and easy at least within the context of an ASP.NET application!You can check out the updated ViewRenderer class below to render your ‘generic views’ from anywhere within your ASP.NET applications. Hope some of you find this useful.ResourcesViewRenderer Class in Westwind.Web.Mvc Library (Github)Original ViewRenderer ArticleRazor Hosting Library (GitHub)Original Razor Hosting Article© Rick Strahl, West Wind Technologies, 2005-2013Posted in ASP.NET  MVC   Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();

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• Integrate BING API for Search inside ASP.Net web application

  - by sreejukg

  As you might already know, Bing is the Microsoft Search engine and is getting popular day by day. Bing offers APIs that can be integrated into your website to increase your website functionality. At this moment, there are two important APIs available. They are Bing Search API Bing Maps The Search API enables you to build applications that utilize Bing’s technology. The API allows you to search multiple source types such as web; images, video etc. and supports various output prototypes such as JSON, XML, and SOAP. Also you will be able to customize the search results as you wish for your public facing website. Bing Maps API allows you to build robust applications that use Bing Maps. In this article I am going to describe, how you can integrate Bing search into your website. In order to start using Bing, First you need to sign in to http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/ using your windows live credentials. Click on the Sign in button, you will be asked to enter your windows live credentials. Once signed in you will be redirected to the Developer page. Here you can create applications and get AppID for each application. Since I am a first time user, I don’t have any applications added. Click on the Add button to add a new application. You will be asked to enter certain details about your application. The fields are straight forward, only thing you need to note is the website field, here you need to enter the website address from where you are going to use this application, and this field is optional too. Of course you need to agree on the terms and conditions and then click Save. Once you click on save, the application will be created and application ID will be available for your use. Now we got the APP Id. Basically Bing supports three protocols. They are JSON, XML and SOAP. JSON is useful if you want to call the search requests directly from the browser and use JavaScript to parse the results, thus JSON is the favorite choice for AJAX application. XML is the alternative for applications that does not support SOAP, e.g. flash/ Silverlight etc. SOAP is ideal for strongly typed languages and gives a request/response object model. In this article I am going to demonstrate how to search BING API using SOAP protocol from an ASP.Net application. For the purpose of this demonstration, I am going to create an ASP.Net project and implement the search functionality in an aspx page. Open Visual Studio, navigate to File-> New Project, select ASP.Net empty web application, I named the project as “BingSearchSample”. Add a Search.aspx page to the project, once added the solution explorer will looks similar to the following. Now you need to add a web reference to the SOAP service available from Bing. To do this, from the solution explorer, right click your project, select Add Service Reference. Now the new service reference dialog will appear. In the left bottom of the dialog, you can find advanced button, click on it. Now the service reference settings dialog will appear. In the bottom left, you can find Add Web Reference button, click on it. The add web reference dialog will appear now. Enter the URL as http://api.bing.net/search.wsdl?AppID=<YourAppIDHere>&version=2.2 (replace <yourAppIDHere> with the appID you have generated previously) and click on the button next to it. This will find the web service methods available. You can change the namespace suggested by Bing, but for the purpose of this demonstration I have accepted all the default settings. Click on the Add reference button once you are done. Now the web reference to Search service will be added your project. You can find this under solution explorer of your project. Now in the Search.aspx, that you previously created, place one textbox, button and a grid view. For the purpose of this demonstration, I have given the identifiers (ID) as txtSearch, btnSearch, gvSearch respectively. The idea is to search the text entered in the text box using Bing service and show the results in the grid view. In the design view, the search.aspx looks as follows. In the search.aspx.cs page, add a using statement that points to net.bing.api. I have added the following code for button click event handler. The code is very straight forward. It just calls the service with your AppID, a query to search and a source for searching. Let us run this page and see the output when I enter Microsoft in my textbox. If you want to search a specific site, you can include the site name in the query parameter. For e.g. the following query will search the word Microsoft from www.microsoft.com website. searchRequest.Query = “site:www.microsoft.com Microsoft”; The output of this query is as follows. Integrating BING search API to your website is easy and there is no limit on the customization of the interface you can do. There is no Bing branding required so I believe this is a great option for web developers when they plan for site search.

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• Knockoutjs - stringify to handling observables and custom events

  - by Renso

  Goal: Once you viewmodel has been built and populated with data, at some point it goal of it all is to persist the data to the database (or some other media). Regardless of where you want to save it, your client-side viewmodel needs to be converted to a JSON string and sent back to the server. Environment considerations: jQuery 1.4.3+ Knockoutjs version 1.1.2   How to: So let’s set the stage, you are using Knockoutjs and you have a viewmodel with some Knockout dependencies. You want to make sure it is in the proper JSON format and via ajax post it to the server for persistence.   First order of business is to deal with the viewmodel (JSON) object. To most the JSON stringifier sounds familiar. The JSON stringifier converts JavaScript data structures into JSON text. JSON does not support cyclic data structures, so be careful to not give cyclical structures to the JSON stringifier. You may ask, is this the best way to do it? What about those observables and other Knockout properties that I don’t want to persist or want their actual value persisted and not their function, etc. Not sure if you were aware, but KO already has a method; ko.utils.stringifyJson() - it's mostly just a wrapper around JSON.stringify. (which is native in some browsers, and can be made available by referencing json2.js in others). What does it do that the regular stringify does not is that it automatically converts observable, dependentObservable, or observableArray to their underlying value to JSON. Hold on! There is a new feature in this version of Knockout, the ko.toJSON. It is part of the core library and it will clone the view model’s object graph, so you don’t mess it up after you have stringified  it and unwrap all its observables. It's smart enough to avoid reference cycles. Since you are using the MVVM pattern it would assume you are not trying to reference DOM nodes from your view. Wait a minute. I can already see this info on the http://knockoutjs.com/examples/contactsEditor.html website, why mention it all here? First of this is a much nicer blog, no orange ? At this time, you may want to have a look at the blog and see what I am talking about. See the save event, how they stringify the view model’s contacts only? That’s cool but what if your view model is a representation of your object you want to persist, meaning it has no property that represents the json object you want to persist, it is the view model itself. The example in http://knockoutjs.com/examples/contactsEditor.html assumes you have a list of contacts you may want to persist. In the example here, you want to persist the view model itself. The viewmodel here looks something like this:     var myViewmodel = {         accountName: ko.observable(""),         accountType: ko.observable("Active")     };     myViewmodel.isItActive = ko.dependentObservable(function () {         return myViewmodel.accountType() == "Active";     });     myViewmodel.clickToSaveMe = function() {         SaveTheAccount();     }; Here is the function in charge of saving the account: Function SaveTheAccount() {     $.ajax({         data: ko.toJSON(viewmodel),         url: $('#ajaxSaveAccountUrl').val(),         type: "POST",         dataType: "json",         async: false,         success: function (result) {             if (result && result.Success == true) {                 $('#accountMessage').html('<span class="fadeMyContainerSlowly">The account has been saved</span>').show();                 FadeContainerAwaySlowly();             }         },         error: function (xmlHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {             alert('An error occurred: ' + errorThrown);         }     }); //ajax }; Try run this and your browser will eventually freeze up or crash. Firebug will tell you that you have a repetitive call to the first function call in your model that keeps firing infinitely.  What is happening is that Knockout serializes the view model to a JSON string by traversing the object graph and firing off the functions, again-and-again. Not sure why it does that, but it does. So what is the work around: Nullify your function calls and then post it:         var lightweightModel = viewmodel.clickToSaveMe = null;         data: ko.toJSON(lightweightModel), So then I traced the JSON string on the server and found it having issues with primitive types. C#, by the way. So I changed ko.toJSON(model) to ko.toJS(model), and that solved my problem. Of course you could just create a property on the viewmodel for the account itself, so you only have to serialize the property and not the entire viewmodel. If that is an option then that would be the way to go. If your view model contains other properties in the view model that you also want to post then that would not be an option and then you’ll know what to watch out for. Hope this helps.

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