I had at one time downloaded a wiktionary dump, trying to gather together words and definitions for slavic languages. I approached it using elementtree to go thru the xml file that is the dump. I would avoid trying to scrape or crawl the site, and just download the xml dump that wikimedia provides for wiktionary. … Read more
Web Services are an absolutely horrible choice for data access. It’s a ton of overhead and complexity for almost zero benefit. If your app is going to run on one machine, why deny it the ability to do in-process data access calls? I’m not talking about directly accessing the database from your UI code, I’m … Read more
The settings in <system.ServiceModel> in the app.config file will tell the component how to connect to the external web service. The xml is simply a textual representation of the necessary classes and enumerations required to make the default connection to the web service. For example, this is the code that was generated for the web … Read more
Since HTTP GET and HTTP POST are disabled by default try adding the following to your config file: <configuration> <system.web> <webServices> <protocols> <add name=”HttpGet”/> <add name=”HttpPost”/> </protocols> </webServices> </system.web> </configuration>
If you are serializing your data object, it will not be a proper json object. Take what you have, and just wrap the data object in a JSON.stringify(). $http({ url: ‘/user_to_itsr’, method: “POST”, data: JSON.stringify({application:app, from:d1, to:d2}), headers: {‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’} }).success(function (data, status, headers, config) { $scope.users = data.users; // assign $scope.persons here as promise … Read more
For anyone having similar problems, I have solved my issue. It was several-fold. As Darren suggested and Paul backed up, the Max..Size properties in the configuration needed to be enlarged. The SvcTraceViewer utility helped in determining this, but it still does not always give the most helpful error messages. It also appears that when the … Read more
If you look at RFC 2616 you’ll see a number of request headers that can be used to apply conditions to a request: If-Match If-Modified-Since If-None-Match If-Range If-Unmodified-Since These headers contain ‘preconditions’, allowing the client to tell the server to only complete the request if certain conditions are met. For example, you use a PUT … Read more
There’s another, very secure method. It’s client certificates. Know how servers present an SSL Cert when you contact them on https? Well servers can request a cert from a client so they know the client is who they say they are. Clients generate certs and give them to you over a secure channel (like coming … Read more
It depends. Out of the box, putting nginx in front as a reverse proxy is going to give you: Access logs Error logs Easy SSL termination SPDY support gzip support Easy ways to set HTTP headers for certain routes in a couple of lines Very fast static asset serving (if you’re serving off S3/etc. though, … Read more
Have a look at werkzeug. Werkzeug started as a simple collection of various utilities for WSGI applications and has become one of the most advanced WSGI utility modules. It includes a powerful debugger, full featured request and response objects, HTTP utilities to handle entity tags, cache control headers, HTTP dates, cookie handling, file uploads, a … Read more