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  • How do I capture and playback http web requests against multiple web servers?

    - by KevM
    My overall goal is to not interrupt a production system while capturing HTTP Posts to a web application so that I can reverse engineer the telemetry coming from a closed application. I have control over the transmitter of the HTTP Posts but not the receiving web application. It seems like I need a request "forking" proxy. Sort of a reverse proxy that pushes the request to 2 endpoints, a master and slave, only relaying the response from the master endpoint back to the requester. I am not a server geek so something like this may exist but I don't know the term of art for what I am looking for. Another possibility could be a simple logging proxy. Capture a log of the web requests. Rewrite the log to target my "slave" web application. Playback the log with curl or something. Thank you for your assistance.

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  • Can I select which folders the Photos live tile chooses from?

    - by nhinkle
    The built-in Photos app in Windows 8 has a live tile on the start screen that shows photos from your pictures library. It's a cool little visual, even if it's not particularly useful. The problem is that a lot of image files on my computer are not really photos per se -- I have a lot of screenshots, PNGs of technical drawings, graph images, etc. Those all look pretty awkward on the start screen. I look pretty awkward on the start screen too... sometimes photos like resume profile shots show up that I don't want to delete, but they're not really what I want to be staring at when I start my computer up. I'm looking for some way to configure which folders the Photos app should look in for images to display on the live tile. That way, I could point it to some directories of pretty scenic pictures I've taken, and not have to see graphs and my own mug. For the time being, I've just disabled the live tile (right click - disable live tile), but I would ultimately like to have this functionality, just with more control over it.

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  • SSL Certificate only works when session active in Server 2008

    - by CodeMonkey1
    I have a web app that uses an installed certificate to send a web request to a 3rd party web service. This has worked for a long time on Windows Server 2003, but just recently we found a problem with it on 2008 installations. When logged into the server as the same user the App Pool uses, either locally or via remote desktop, the web app and it's secure 3rd party request works fine. However, when there are no user sessions open, the 3rd party request fails, as if the certificate were not attached to the web request. Any ideas?

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  • How can I optimize my ajax calls to deliver at 60ms.

    - by Quintin Par
    I am building an autocomplete functionality for my site and the Google instant results are my benchmark. When I look at Google, the 50-60 ms response time baffle me. They look insane. In comparison here’s how mine looks like. To give you an idea my results are cached on the load balancer and served from a machine that has httpd slowstart and initcwnd fixed. My site is also behind cloudflare From a server side perspective I don’t think I can do anything more. Can someone help me take this 500 ms response time to 60ms? What more should I be doing to achieve Google level performance? Edit: People, you seemed to be angry that I did a comparison to Google and the question is very generic. Sorry about that. To rephrase: How can I bring down response time from 500 ms to 60 ms provided my server response time is just a fraction of ms. Assume the results are served from Nginx - Varnish with a cache hit. Here are some answers I would like to answer myself assume the response sizes remained more or less the same. Ensure results are http compressed Ensure SPDY if you are on https Ensure you have initcwnd set to 10 and disable slow start on linux machines. Etc. I don’t think I’ll end up with 60 ms at Google level but your collective expertise can help easily shave off a 100 ms and that’s a big win.

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  • How does Google manage to serve results so fast?

    - by Quintin Par
    I am building an autocomplete functionality for my site and the Google instant results are my benchmark. When I look at Google, the 50-60 ms response time baffle me. They look insane. In comparison here’s how mine looks like. To give you an idea my results are cached on the load balancer and served from a machine that has httpd slowstart and initcwnd fixed. My site is also behind cloudflare From a server side perspective I don’t think I can do anything more. Can someone help me take this 500 ms response time to 60ms? What more should I be doing to achieve Google level performance?

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  • Overriding the save() method of a model that uses django-mptt

    - by saturdayplace
    I've been using django-mptt in my project for a while now, it's fabulous. Recently, I've found a need to override a model's save() method that uses mptt, and I'm getting an error when I try to save a new instance of that model: Exception Type: ValueError at /admin/scrivener/page/add/ Exception Value: Cannot use None as a query value I'm assuming that this is a result of the fact that the instance hasn't been stuck into a tree yet, but I'm not sure how to go about fixing this. I added a comment about it onto a similar issue on the project's tracker, but I was hoping that someone here might be able to put me on the right track faster. Here's the traceback. Environment: Request Method: POST Request URL: http://localhost:8000/admin/scrivener/page/add/ Django Version: 1.2 rc 1 SVN-13117 Python Version: 2.6.4 Installed Applications: ['django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.sitemaps', 'mptt', 'filebrowser', 'south', 'haystack', 'django_static', 'etc', 'scrivener', 'gregor', 'annunciator'] Installed Middleware: ('django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware', 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware', 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware') Traceback: File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\core\handlers\base.py" in get_response 100. response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in wrapper 239. return self.admin_site.admin_view(view)(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 74. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\views\decorators\cache.py" in _wrapped_view_func 69. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\sites.py" in inner 190. return view(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapper 21. return decorator(bound_func)(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in _wrapped_view 74. response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\decorators.py" in bound_func 17. return func(self, *args2, **kwargs2) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\transaction.py" in _commit_on_success 299. res = func(*args, **kw) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in add_view 795. self.save_model(request, new_object, form, change=False) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\contrib\admin\options.py" in save_model 597. obj.save() File "B:\django-apps\scrivener\models.py" in save 205. self.url = self.get_absolute_url() File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\utils\functional.py" in _curried 55. return _curried_func(*(args+moreargs), **dict(kwargs, **morekwargs)) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\base.py" in get_absolute_url 940. return settings.ABSOLUTE_URL_OVERRIDES.get('%s.%s' % (opts.app_label, opts.module_name), func)(self, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\__init__.py" in inner 31. bits = func(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\scrivener\models.py" in get_absolute_url 194. for ancestor in self.get_ancestors(): File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\mptt\models.py" in get_ancestors 23. opts.tree_id_attr: getattr(self, opts.tree_id_attr), File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\manager.py" in filter 141. return self.get_query_set().filter(*args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\query.py" in filter 550. return self._filter_or_exclude(False, *args, **kwargs) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\query.py" in _filter_or_exclude 568. clone.query.add_q(Q(*args, **kwargs)) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\sql\query.py" in add_q 1131. can_reuse=used_aliases) File "B:\django-apps\3rd Party Source\django\db\models\sql\query.py" in add_filter 1000. raise ValueError("Cannot use None as a query value") Exception Type: ValueError at /admin/scrivener/page/add/ Exception Value: Cannot use None as a query value

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  • php curl http 405 error mind body online api

    - by K_G
    I am trying to connect to the Mind Body Online API (their forum is down currently, so I came here). Below is the code I am using. I am receiving this: SERVER ERROR 405 - HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed. The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) was used to attempt to access. code: //Data, connection, auth $soapUrl = "http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/api/0_5"; // xml post structure $xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns="http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/api/0_5"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <GetClasses> <Request> <SourceCredentials> <SourceName>username</SourceName> <Password>password</Password> <SiteIDs> <int>site id</int> </SiteIDs> </SourceCredentials> <UserCredentials> <Username>username</Username> <Password>password</Password> <SiteIDs> <int></int> </SiteIDs> </UserCredentials> <Fields> <string>Classes.Resource</string> </Fields> <XMLDetail>Basic</XMLDetail> <PageSize>10</PageSize> <CurrentPageIndex>0</CurrentPageIndex> </Request> </GetClasses> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>'; $headers = array( "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"", "Accept: text/xml", "Cache-Control: no-cache", "Pragma: no-cache", "SOAPAction: http://clients.mindbodyonline.com/api/0_5", "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string), ); //SOAPAction: your op URL $url = $soapUrl; // PHP cURL for https connection with auth $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); // converting $response = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); var_dump($response); // converting //$response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response); //$response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1); // convertingc to XML //$parser = simplexml_load_string($response2); // user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it. Any help would be great and if anyone has any experience working with their API, my first time ;) Here is the post on stack I am going off of: SOAP request in PHP

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  • Django app that can provide user friendly, multiple / mass file upload functionality to other apps

    - by hopla
    Hi, I'm going to be honest: this is a question I asked on the Django-Users mailinglist last week. Since I didn't get any replies there yet, I'm reposting it on Stack Overflow in the hope that it gets more attention here. I want to create an app that makes it easy to do user friendly, multiple / mass file upload in your own apps. With user friendly I mean upload like Gmail, Flickr, ... where the user can select multiple files at once in the browse file dialog. The files are then uploaded sequentially or in parallel and a nice overview of the selected files is shown on the page with a progress bar next to them. A 'Cancel' upload button is also a possible option. All that niceness is usually solved by using a Flash object. Complete solutions are out there for the client side, like: SWFUpload http://swfupload.org/ , FancyUpload http://digitarald.de/project/fancyupload/ , YUI 2 Uploader http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/uploader/ and probably many more. Ofcourse the trick is getting those solutions integrated in your project. Especially in a framework like Django, double so if you want it to be reusable. So, I have a few ideas, but I'm neither an expert on Django nor on Flash based upload solutions. I'll share my ideas here in the hope of getting some feedback from more knowledgeable and experienced people. (Or even just some 'I want this too!' replies :) ) You will notice that I make a few assumptions: this is to keep the (initial) scope of the application under control. These assumptions are of course debatable: All right, my idea's so far: If you want to mass upload multiple files, you are going to have a model to contain each file in. I.e. the model will contain one FileField or one ImageField. Models with multiple (but ofcourse finite) amount of FileFields/ ImageFields are not in need of easy mass uploading imho: if you have a model with 100 FileFields you are doing something wrong :) Examples where you would want my envisioned kind of mass upload: An app that has just one model 'Brochure' with a file field, a title field (dynamically created from the filename) and a date_added field. A photo gallery app with models 'Gallery' and 'Photo'. You pick a Gallery to add pictures to, upload the pictures and new Photo objects are created and foreign keys set to the chosen Gallery. It would be nice to be able to configure or extend the app for your favorite Flash upload solution. We can pick one of the three above as a default, but implement the app so that people can easily add additional implementations (kinda like Django can use multiple databases). Let it be agnostic to any particular client side solution. If we need to pick one to start with, maybe pick the one with the smallest footprint? (smallest download of client side stuff) The Flash based solutions asynchronously (and either sequentially or in parallel) POST the files to a url. I suggest that url to be local to our generic app (so it's the same for every app where you use our app in). That url will go to a view provided by our generic app. The view will do the following: create a new model instance, add the file, OPTIONALLY DO EXTRA STUFF and save the instance. DO EXTRA STUFF is code that the app that uses our app wants to run. It doesn't have to provide any extra code, if the model has just a FileField/ImageField the standard view code will do the job. But most app will want to do extra stuff I think, like filling in the other fields: title, date_added, foreignkeys, manytomany, ... I have not yet thought about a mechanism for DO EXTRA STUFF. Just wrapping the generic app view came to mind, but that is not developer friendly, since you would have to write your own url pattern and your own view. Then you have to tell the Flash solutions to use a new url etc... I think something like signals could be used here? Forms/Admin: I'm still very sketchy on how all this could best be integrated in the Admin or generic Django forms/widgets/... (and this is were my lack of Django experience shows): In the case of the Gallery/Photo app: You could provide a mass Photo upload widget on the Gallery detail form. But what if the Gallery instance is not saved yet? The file upload view won't be able to set the foreignkeys on the Photo instances. I see that the auth app, when you create a user, first asks for username and password and only then provides you with a bigger form to fill in emailadres, pick roles etc. We could do something like that. In the case of an app with just one model: How do you provide a form in the Django admin to do your mass upload? You can't do it with the detail form of your model, that's just for one model instance. There's probably dozens more questions that need to be answered before I can even start on this app. So please tell me what you think! Give me input! What do you like? What not? What would you do different? Is this idea solid? Where is it not? Thank you!

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  • Runtime error on UVa Online Judge on Erdos Number

    - by 2012 - End of the World
    I am solving the Erdos number problem from the programming challenges in JAVA. The code runs perfectly in my machine. However on the online judge it results in a runtime error. Could anyone point out the mistake i made? http://uva.onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&Itemid=8&page=show_problem&problem=985 Here is the code import java.util.*; import java.io.*; class Main { private String inputLines[]; private String namesToBeFound[]; private String namesInEachBook[][]; private String searchItem; private boolean solnfound=false; private static final BufferedReader br =new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); static String read() throws IOException { String line; while(true) { line=br.readLine(); if(line==null) break; //eof else if(line.length()==0) continue; //blank line else { line=line.trim().replaceAll("\\s+"," "); return line; } } return null; } public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { Main ob=new Main(); int totalPapers,calcAuthors,totalScenarios; //First input number of scenarios totalScenarios=Integer.parseInt(read()); //Now start a loop for reading total number of scenarios for(int scenario=1;scenario<=totalScenarios;scenario++) { //Now read the line containing the number of papers and authors StringTokenizer line=new StringTokenizer(read()," "); totalPapers=Integer.parseInt(line.nextToken()); calcAuthors=Integer.parseInt(line.nextToken()); //Read a line containing author names along with book names ob.inputLines=new String[totalPapers]; for(int i=0;i<totalPapers;i++) ob.inputLines[i]=read(); //Read a line containing the names to be searched ob.namesToBeFound=new String[calcAuthors]; for(int i=0;i<calcAuthors;i++) ob.namesToBeFound[i]=read(); //Now generate the array ob.buildArray(); //Now search System.out.println("Scenario "+scenario); for(int i=0;i<calcAuthors;i++) { ob.searchItem=ob.namesToBeFound[i]; if(ob.searchItem.equals("Erdos, P.")) { System.out.println("Erdos, P. 0"); continue; } ob.search(ob.namesToBeFound[i],1,new ArrayList()); if(ob.solnfound==false) System.out.println(ob.searchItem+" infinity"); ob.solnfound=false; } } } private void buildArray() { String str; namesInEachBook=new String[inputLines.length][]; for(int i=0;i<inputLines.length;i++) { str=inputLines[i]; str=str.substring(0,str.indexOf(':')); str+=","; namesInEachBook[i]=new String[(countCommas(str)+1)>>1]; for(int j=0;j<namesInEachBook[i].length;j++) { str=str.trim(); namesInEachBook[i][j]=""; namesInEachBook[i][j]+=str.substring(0,str.indexOf(','))+","; str=str.substring(str.indexOf(',')+1); namesInEachBook[i][j]+=str.substring(0,str.indexOf(',')); str=str.substring(str.indexOf(',')+1); } } } private int countCommas(String s) { int num=0; for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++) if(s.charAt(i)==',') num++; return num; } private void search(String searchElem,int ernosDepth,ArrayList searchedElem) { ArrayList searchSpace=new ArrayList(); searchedElem.add(searchElem); for(int i=0;i<namesInEachBook.length;i++) for(int j=0;j<namesInEachBook[i].length;j++) { if(namesInEachBook[i][j].equals(searchElem)) //Add all authors name in this group { for(int k=0;k<namesInEachBook[i].length;k++) { if(namesInEachBook[i][k].equals("Erdos, P.")) //Found { solnfound=true; System.out.println(searchItem+" "+ernosDepth); return; } else if(searchedElem.contains(namesInEachBook[i][k]) || searchSpace.contains(namesInEachBook[i][k])) continue; searchSpace.add(namesInEachBook[i][k]); } break; } } Iterator i=searchSpace.iterator(); while(i.hasNext()) { String cSearchElem=(String)i.next(); search(cSearchElem,ernosDepth+1,searchedElem); } } }

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  • Google+ Platform Office Hours: A Movember of Metro-style Apps!

    Google+ Platform Office Hours: A Movember of Metro-style Apps! This week join Google+ Developer Relations team members Joanna Smith, Jonathan Beri, Silvano Luciani, and Gus Class for a special Movember GDL. We'll share updates for Google+, demonstrate Google+ Metro style apps integration in C#, and answer any questions you ask in the event and live YouTube comments. From: GoogleDevelopers Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 30:00 More in Science & Technology

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  • How to download apps from different OS to USB and then transfer to Ubuntu?

    - by kb67
    I just installed Ubuntu on my old desktop computer, and I have to say—I freaking love it! Except at the moment I do not have internet connection (i'm using a unsecured connection) and i'm using my Windows 7 Laptop to get a connection to the web. I would love to install some useful apps on the desktop, but I can't figure out how to do this, is there any way to download Ubuntu/Linux apps on my windows computer and put them into a USB then transfer to the desktop?

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  • Google Apps Marketplace, les applications les plus téléchargées sont de plus en plus complexes : gestion de projet, CRM, ERP, finances

    Google Apps Marketplace, les applications les plus téléchargées Elles sont de plus en plus complexes : gestion de projet, CRM, ERP, finances Le dernier Marketplace en date de Google, la galerie d'applications professionnelles complémentaires des Google Apps (Google Docs, Google Site, Blogger, Gmail, Agenda, etc), est un succès. C'est en tout cas l'avis de Google qui communique aujourd'hui les premiers résultats significatifs depuis le lancement officiel de cette galerie. ...

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  • A new free book from Microsoft - Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Preview)

    - by TATWORTH
    At  http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2012/09/12/turn-your-bright-ideas-into-applications-with-the-new-mcsd.aspx there is mention of a new free book from Microsoft Press - Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (Second Preview)The actual download page is http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/08/20/free-ebook-programming-windows-8-apps-with-html-css-and-javascript-second-preview.aspx

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  • How to Make Money Online by Creating a Website? Part 1

    Who doesn't want to make money online these days. Everybody is looking for different ways. Some are looking for the quick ways, some for easy ways and there are others who are looking for the ways which will help them to make money in the long term. In this article I am going to tell you how to make money online by creating a website.

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  • How to Make Money Online by Creating a Website? Part 1

    Who doesn't want to make money online these days. Everybody is looking for different ways. Some are looking for the quick ways, some for easy ways and there are others who are looking for the ways which will help them to make money in the long term. In this article I am going to tell you how to make money online by creating a website.

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  • Google domains. eNom vs Godaddy?

    - by JavaRocky
    Can someone help me understand the benefits and disadvantages of each domain registrar and using them with google apps? I have used godaddy before but not enom. I just don't want to buy a bunch of domains and then later regret not changing the domain registrar when i registered them. I will also be using google app engine and i would like to ultimately have a subdomain configured to use amazon cloud front.

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  • How to add a context processor from a Django app

    - by Edan Maor
    Say I'm writing a Django app, and all the templates in the app require a certain variable. The "classic" way to deal with this, afaik, is to write a context processor and add it to TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in the settings.py. My question is, is this the right way to do it, considering that apps are supposed to be "independent" from the actual project using them? In other words, when deploying that app to a new project, is there any way to avoid the project having to explicitly mess around with its settings?

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  • Can't retrieve more than 2 gmail messages using Zend framework imap access - server dies - doens't r

    - by Ali
    Hi guys I'm working on a google apps application. Basically I've set it up so users can add multiple gmail addresses and check on their inboxes in the application. It works fine with a google apps email address however when I add a gmail address it just dies out. I'm using this code here: $mail = new Zend_Mail_Storage_Imap($mail_options); $all_messages = array(); $page = isset($_GET['page'])?$_GET['page']:1; $limit = isset($_GET['limit'])?$_GET['limit']:20; $offset = (($page-1)*$limit)+1; $end = ($page*$limit)>$c?$c:($page*$limit); for ($i=$offset;$i<=$end;$i++){ $h2t = new html2text(); $h2t->set_allowed_tags('<a>'); if(!$mail[$i]) break; else{ $one_message = $mail->getMessage($i); $one_message->id = $i; $one_message->UID = $mail->getUniqueId($i); $one_message->parts = array(); $one_message->body = ''; $count = 1; foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($mail->getMessage($i)) as $ii=>$part) { try { $tpart = $part; //$tpart->_content = ''; $one_message->parts[$count] = $tpart; $count++; // check for html body if (strtok($part->contentType, ';') == 'text/html') { $b = $part->getContent(); if($part->contentTransferEncoding == 'quoted-printable') $b = quoted_printable_decode($b); $one_message->html_body = $b; $h2t->set_html($b); $one_message->body = $h2t->get_text(); } //check for text body if (strtok($part->contentType, ';') == 'text/plain') { $b = $part->getContent(); if($part->contentTransferEncoding == 'quoted-printable') $b = quoted_printable_decode($b); $one_message->text_body = $b; $one_message->body = $b;//$part->getContent(); } } catch (Zend_Mail_Exception $e) { // ignore } } $all_messages[] = $one_message; } } No matter what the emails it dies out on retrieving just 2 emails... whats going on here?

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  • Merging .NET assemblies on Windows Store / Phone 8 / Portable Class Library

    - by Gabriel S.
    Is there a way to embed multiple dependent assemblies into a single one for projects written on the following platform types: Windows Store Apps, Windows Phone 8, Portable Class Library? I know that for regular .Net projects there is ILMerge, but on the aforementioned project types it doesn't work. Embedding assemblies as resources and then manually resolving the references using AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve is not possible either, since AppDomain is not available in these types of project.

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  • Backing Up vs. Redundancy

    - by TK Kocheran
    I'm currently in stage 2 of 3 of building my home workstation. What this means is that my RAID-0 array of solid state disks will be backed up nightly to a RAID-5 or RAID-6 array of traditional spinning hard disks. However, it recently dawned on me that redundancy is not backup. The main reason for setting up a RAID array with redundancy was to protect myself in the event of a drive failure to serve as an effective backup solution. Wait. What if a bolt of lightning finds a way to travel into my house, through my surge-protector, into my power supply and physically destroys all of my hard disks and SSDs? Well, in that case, I guess I'd be fine because I generally keep most important files (music, pictures, videos) stored in multiple places like on my laptop, my wife's laptop, and an encrypted USB hard drive. Wait. What if a giant hedgehog meteor attacks my house from space traveling at mach 3 and all machines and hard disks are blown to smithereens. Well, I guess I could find a way to do ridiculously slow and cumbersome rsyncs or backups to Amazon's Glacier. Wait. What if there's a nuclear apocalypse... and at this point I start laughing hysterically. At what point does backing up become irrelevant? I completely understand situation one (mechanical drive failure), situation two (workstation compromised or destroyed somehow), possibly even situation three (all machines and disks destroyed), but situation four? There's no questioning the need for backups. None. However, there are three questions I'd really like addressed: To what level should one backup? I definitely understand the merits of physical disk redundancy. I also believe in keeping important files on multiple machines and thinning out the possibility of losing all of my files. Online backups make sense, but they beg the following question. What should I be backing up remotely and how often? It's no problem storage-wise to back up important files (music, pictures, videos) and even configuration and temporal data for all of the machines in my network (all Linux based)... albeit locally. Transferring to the cloud is another story. Worst-case scenario, if I lost all of my configuration for my individual computers, the reality is that I probably lost the machines too. The cloud is a long way away from here; I can run backups over CAT-6 here and see 100MB/s easily, but I'm afraid that I'm only going to see 2MB/s at best when transferring up to the cloud.

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  • disk-to-disk backup without costly backup redundancy?

    - by AaronLS
    A good backup strategy involves a combination of 1) disconnected backups/snapshots that will not be affected by bugs, viruses, and/or security breaches 2) geographically distributed backups to protect against local disasters 3) testing backups to ensure that they can be restored as needed Generally I take an onsite backup daily, and an offsite backup weekly, and do test restores periodically. In the rare circumstance that I need to restore files, I do some from the local backup. Should a catastrophic event destroy the servers and local backups, then the offsite weekly tape backup would be used to restore the files. I don't need multiple offsite backups with redundancy. I ALREADY HAVE REDUNDANCY THROUGH THE USE OF BOTH LOCAL AND REMOTE BACKUPS. I have recovery blocks and par files with the backups, so I already have protection against a small percentage of corrupt bits. I perform test restores to ensure the backups function properly. Should the remote backups experience a dataloss, I can replace them with one of the local backups. There are historical offsite backups as well, so if a dataloss was not noticed for a few weeks(such as a bug/security breach/virus), the data could be restored from an older backup. By doing this, the only scenario that poses a risk to complete data loss would be one where both the local, remote, and servers all experienced a data loss in the same time period. I'm willing to risk that happening since the odds of that trifecta negligibly small, and the data isn't THAT valuable to me. So I hope I have emphasized that I don't need redundancy in my offsite backups because I have covered all the bases. I know this exact technique is employed by numerous businesses. Of course there are some that take multiple offsite backups, because the data is so incredibly valuable that they don't even want to risk that trifecta disaster, but in the majority of cases the trifecta disaster is an accepted risk. I HAD TO COVER ALL THIS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE DON'T READ!!! I think I have justified my backup strategy and the majority of businesses who use offsite tape backups do not have any additional redundancy beyond what is mentioned above(recovery blocks, par files, historical snapshots). Now I would like to eliminate the use of tapes for offsite backups, and instead use a backup service. Most however are extremely costly for $/gb/month storage. I don't mind paying for transfer bandwidth, but the cost of storage is way to high. All of them advertise that they maintain backups of the data, and I imagine they use RAID as well. Obviously if you were using them to host servers this would all be necessary, but for my scenario, I am simply replacing my offsite backups with such a service. So there is no need for RAID, and absolutely no value in another layer of backups of backups. My one and only question: "Are there online data-storage/backup services that do not use redundancy or offer backups(backups of my backups) as part of their packages, and thus are more reasonably priced?" NOT my question: "Is this a flawed strategy?" I don't care if you think this is a good strategy or not. I know it pretty standard. Very few people make an extra copy of their offsite backups. They already have local backups that they can use to replace the remote backups if something catastrophic happens at the remote site. Please limit your responses to the question posed. Sorry if I seem a little abrasive, but I had some trolls in my last post who didn't read my requirements nor my question, and were trying to go off answering a totally different question. I made it pretty clear, but didn't try to justify my strategy, because I didn't ask about whether my strategy was justifyable. So I apologize if this was lengthy, as it really didn't need to be, but since there are so many trolls here who try to sidetrack questions by responding without addressing the question at hand.

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