Topic: WebAppTech
HREF Tools has been in the business of dynamic database-driven completely-custom web app technology since 1995. Sometimes we say things about that.
Responsive design not working on Blogger?
Google search reports an error about blogger site: Text too small to read...This happened to us here on this blog, not long ago. We were using one of Bloggers preset themes, which are designed to be responsive to various screen sizes, but it just wasn’t working correctly, and Google analytics was r
PowerShell to Remove IIS Certificates
We were using this PowerShell syntax on a Windows Server Core where IIS Manager (inetmgr.exe) is not available. Nonetheless this is handy syntax for any Window server where you might be upgrading from an older version of the LetsEncrypt client to WACS.Objective:Delete all existing IIS Certificates
IIS for mobile dev: use WACS client to make LetsEncrypt https cert
Question: how to make a free trusted HTTPS certificate for use when developing mobile apps with IIS on a development system which is intentionally private?https://flic.kr/p/qJccKyShort answer: use the win-acme client with dns validationUPDATE January 2020"WACS" now supports some plug-ins to do DNS e
Notes about IISNode, NodeJS, Stripe, WebHub integration
StripeCreate your ecommerce payment gateway account atstripe.com.IISNodeIISNodelets you use NodeJS together with IIS in a way that makes it reasonably convenient to serve the static files over IIS yet have NodeJS respond for selected URLs.Download fromIISNode Releases. Install. You will end up with
Error Code 0x800700c1 on IIS on Windows 10 Pro
Alert on June 13, 2017New App Pool unexpectedly defaults itself to Win32When you use IIS Manager to make a newApplication Pool, itdefaults to win32 not win64on Windows 10 Pro. This, of course, leads to IISServer Error 500with Error Code 0x800700c1, if you are in fact loading custom win64 ISAPI exte
Using OpenSSL on Windows to Sign a File Upload Policy for AWS S3
DocsThe authoritative reference for uploading files directly from a web browser to an Amazon S3 bucket ishere on Amazonand a nice example with further tips ishere, since 2008.This post concerns the steps 1-2-3-4 for signing the policy, and doing it with OpenSSL.exe at a Windows cmd prompt.1.Encode t
How to Set Up and Serve Private Content using Amazon S3 and CloudFront
Here are my notes regarding anexcellent post by Mark S. Rasmussenabout Serving Private Content using Amazon S3 and CloudFront. He uses Dot Net and C# for the steps. By now, the browser-based AWS console has sufficient features to let us do this without compiling anything in C#. These notes follow
Configure custom Morfik app with IIS6 and Firebird
Here are some notes for configuring a Morfik application (DLL) which was in this case compiled with Embarcadero Delphi and using a Firebird SQL database.IIS6 ConfigurationIIS6 needs a web site for each projectI will assume you know how to make a webiste. Point the home directory to the folder contai
Chasing Googlebot complaint about Server error: Connection reset
Google Help for Server error: Connection Resetends with this intriguing advice, "If the problem persists, check with your hosting provider."Yeah but what if you ARE the hosting provider? What exactly are you looking for, and where?One useful step was to turn on theEvent Viewer loggingof ALL reasons
How to Block 360Spider (the web robot)
360Spider was once again TOO demanding I draw the line at webrobots that frequently morph their user agent names. Spider360 really got out of control today. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; zh-CN; rv:1.8.0.11) Gecko/2007 Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows
IIS6 config for anonymous access
This error message on Windows 2003 Server:HTTP Error 401.1 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.This problem can be cleared up by resetting the password for the IUSR account (Control Panel > Administration > Computer Management > Local Users) and then putting that same passwor
Redirection 302 for IE versus Firefox
IE is quite happy to process a LOCATION: url within the http prologue regardless of the presence/absence of Content-Type and Content-Length, but Firefox requires Content-Type and Content-Length.HTTP/1.1 302 FoundConnection: closeDate: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:47:24 GMTServer: Microsoft-IIS/6.0Content-Typ
Recycle IIS AppPool from command line
Here is a BAT file for recycling the IIS AppPool from the command line, i.e. without needing to run IIS Manager. You may need to adjust the path to Windows and the name of the AppPool. The program this uses, cscript.exe, is included with Windows.cscript.exe c:\windows\system32\iisapp.vbs /a Default
Content-length refers to the payload
Of possible interest to new ISAPI programmers: In the HTTP spec, the content-length refers to the length of the data AFTER the prologue and NOT INCLUDING the prologue, the prologue being the part with 200 OK, Content-Type and Content-Length and being separated from the payload by two CRLF pairs.
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