I had heard conflicting rumours about the significance of the trailing slash, so I decided to go googling. If you explore the first few hits you will find all sorts of discussions about cool urls, the impact on SEO, the performance benefits of avoiding server redirects, amongst other stuff. However, I found nothing that seemed [...]
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Security and Http
I did some experimentation today with authentication over http. Using the System.Net.WebClient class I made requests against both a HttpListener based server and WCF service contract using webHttpBinding. With HttpListener I can get Basic authentication and WindowsIntegratedAuthentication working just fine. With WebHttpBinding I cannot get either. I am aware that with WebHttpBinding over https you [...]
Programming Twitter without WCF 3.5
Via Twitter I came across this post showing how easy it is to interface with Twitter using WCF 3.5. Dariusz hypothesizes that it would be cool to do 1: TwitterStatusProxy proxy = new TwitterStatusProxy( “username”, “password” ); 2: 3: // retrieve friends timeline 4: XElement timeline = proxy.GetFriendsTimeline(); 5: 6: // do whatever you want [...]
What is needed to build distributed applications.
Tim Ewald responds to Don’s question about the validity of the the four tenets. Don asked for input… This quote really struck home: And finally, I’m not sure I want to build on a layer designed to factor HTTP in on top of a layer that was designed to factor it out. Considering that I [...]
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