What is the "official" url I should use if I want to indicate just a resource that fails as soon as possible?
I don't want to use www.example.com since its an actual site that accepts and responds requests and I don't want something that takes forever and fails from a timeout (like typing using a random, private IP address can lead to).
I thought about writing an invalid address or just some random text but I figured it wouldn't look as nice and clear as "www.example.com" is.
If you want an invalid IP, trying using 0.0.0.0.
The first octet of an IP cannot be 0, so 0.0.0.0 to 0.255.255.255 will be invalid.
For more info, see this question: what is a good invalid IP address to use for unit tests?
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5735:
192.0.2.0/24 - This block is assigned as "TEST-NET-1" for use in documentation and example code. It is often used in conjunction with domain names example.com or example.net in vendor and protocol documentation. As described in [RFC5737], addresses within this block do not legitimately appear on the public Internet and can be used without any coordination with IANA or an Internet registry. See[RFC1166].
Use .invalid, as per RFC 6761:
The domain "invalid." and any names falling within ".invalid." are special [...] Users MAY assume that queries for "invalid" names will always return NXDOMAIN responses.
So a request for https://foo.invalid/bar will always fail, assuming well-behaved DNS.
Related question: What is a guaranteed-unresolvable (but valid) URL?
if it's in a browser then about: is fairly useless - but it would be better if your service returned the correct HTTP status code - e.g. 200 = good, 404 = not found, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
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I have a Django email client powered by IMAPClient library. I successfully control read/unread status, as well as deleted. As descriped here.
My code for declaring a message as readlooks like this:
from imapclient.imapclient import SEEN
server.add_flags(msg_uids, SEEN)
Now I am stuck trying to add flag 'Junk' to the message.
I mean, doing something like:
server.add_flags(msg_uids, '\Junk')
There are a few things at play here. Firstly, flags that start with "" are system flags and \Junk isn't a standard system flag (as defined here).
Are you sure the server you're talking to supports the \Junk flag? You can check what flags the server lets the client set by checking for a PERMANENTFLAGS response in the return from IMAPClient's select_folder() call. This lists the flags the client is allowed to change. Is \Junk included?
If PERMANENTFLAGS includes \* then the client is allowed to define new keywords (flags that don't start with \) just by using them. See the spec for further details. If \* isn't included then the client may only set the listed flags.
I see that AWS posts a json file with all their IP ranges here (Actual JSON HERE)
I was thinking of using this json file to check against every incoming connection in my node app but firstly I was wondering if it would be far too much overhead to loop through it for every request?
Secondly, I wasn't sure exactly how to go about this, as many IP ranges are formatted differently eg.
43.250.192.0/24
46.51.128.0/18
27.0.0.0/22
I'm not too sure what them suffix's mean.
Has anyone don something similar?
Your first concern is correct - it's a lot of overhead to loop through Amazon's IPs for each request. This should be handled at the firewall.
Nevertheless, the ip_prefix field Amazon is providing can be used to ensure valid IP addresses exist within that subnet. The node-ip module can help with this. It has a cidrSubnet function that can be used to test a prefix against a user's IP. See the below coffeescript.
ip = require 'node-ip'
amazonIPs = require 'amazonIPs.json'
someUsersIP = '192.168.1.190'
for prefix in amazonIPs.prefix
if ip.cidrSubnet(prefix).contains(someUsersIP)
console.log "#{someUsersIP} is within the #{prefix} range"
i've noticed that on LoLReplays webpage you can now stream live games via their program LoLRecorder. I found this code on their page
href="lrf://spectator spectator.eu.lol.riotgames.com 2nHvYdkaSjjqC7f+mtHQeIhFcUSQLFu5 488978485 EUN1 3.01.0.1"
And i've tried a little to stream from my own (already recorded) game. But all i get is unable to find match. My question is: Does anyone here know how this works?
Thanks!
TL;DR; You can't stream anything, but you can open LoLReplay in spectator mode for a specific match.
Try reinstalling LoLReplay, seemed to fix the issues that I was having.
The title of your post is somewhat misleading as no streaming actually happens - all that the link does is open LoLReplay on your local machine and pass in the details of the match you want to spectate.
This will only work for matches that are happening now, as it connects in a similar way as the LoL client does when you spectate a match.
Calling LoLReplay from the browser
The links seem to be formatted as follows:
lrf://spectator [Observer IP Address][:Observer Port] [Observer Encryption Key] [Game Id] [Platform Id] [Client Version?]
lrf://spectator tells LoLReplay to open up in spectator mode.
Observer IP Address is required and can either be a hostname or an IP address. The hostname is usually in the format spectator.[eu/na/br/etc.].lol.riotgames.com.
Observer Port is optional, I believe it defaults to 8088 which appears to be the default spectator mode port.
Observer Encryption Key... is a required per-match encryption key.
Game Id is a required, per-match integer id.
Platform Id is a more specific version of the region, I guess relating to how Riot have grouped their servers. For example EUW1.
Client Version, the last field appears to be a version number - I can only assume this is either the version of the client that LoLReplay is using OR the version of the client the players in the match are using.
How to find IP address, encryption key etc.
Edit: you can now grab all the info you need using the official Riot API, you just need the SummonerId of the user you're querying for. See current-game API docs for usage.
If we have a customer with a cname record, sub1.notourserver.com, pointing to something like abcdefg.ourserver.com, we read the host as sub1.notoursever.com. Is it possible for us to somehow get the value abcdefg.ourserver.com from this request? We have a subdomain route setup, but it is not picking up on it because the host does not match our SERVER_NAME config setting.
HTTPÂ does not provide that information, and so neither can Flask/Werkzeug. You need to use in Flask/Werkzeug the (sub)domain names actually used by clients.
If you really can not do that, you need to hack a WSGI middleware that maintains an explicit mapping (or makes DNS requests) and patches environ['HTTP_HOST'].
Due to a limitation on our SMTP provder's side, we're having to use System.Web.Mail (deprecated), which is a wrapper around CDOSSYS.
Because we'd like to avoid having to change multiple configurations if we switch providers at a later date, we set up an internal alias for our providers FQDN.
So, mailrelay.ourdomain.com -> mailrelay.provider.com.
When I try to connect to either our alias or the provider's IP, a COM error bubbles up: "The transport failed to connect to the server." If I connect to the provider's true FQDN, everything works as expected.
I've looked in Wireshark, and I can see the certificate being requested, but not much happens after that.
I'm wondering if anyone knows if CDOSSYS checks to make sure the requested host name matches the FQDN on the certificate and fails if it doesn't match.
I've tried searching for an answer to this question, but I can't seem to find it.
I can't find a definitive answer, but from what I can tell, yes, CDOSYS does require a certification to match an SMTP server's FQDN when using SSL.