I am developing a website in PHP and I am using mod-rewrite rules. I want to use the Netbeans Run Configuration (under project properties) to set code entry points that looks like http://project/news or http://project/user/12
It seems Netbeans have a problem with this and needs an entry point to a physical file like http://project/user.php?id=12
Has anyone found a good way to work around this?
I see your question is a bit old, but since it has no answer, I will give you one.
What I did to solve the problem, was to give netbeans what it wants in terms of a valid physical file, but provide my controller (index.php in this case) with the 'data' to act correctly. I pass this data using a query parameter. Using your example of project being the web site domain and user/12 as the URL, use the following in the NetBeans Run Configuration and arguments boxes. netbeans does not need the ? as it inserts that automatically, see the complete url below the input boxes
Project URL: http://project
Index File: index.php *(put your controller name here)*
Arguments: url=user/12
http://project/index.php?url=user/12
Then in your controller (index.php in this example), test for the url query param and if it exists parse it instead of the actual Server Request, as you would do normally.
I also do not want the above URL to be publically accessible. So, by using an IS_DEVELOPER define, which is true only for configured developer IP addresses, I can control who has access that special url.
If you are trying to debug specific pages, alternatively, you can set the NetBeans run configuration to:
http://project/
and debug your project, but you must run through your home page once and since the debugger is now active, just navigate to http://project/user/12 in your browser and NetBeans will debug at that entry point. I found passing through my home page every time a pain, so I use the technique above.
Hopefully that provides enough insight to work with your project. It has worked good for me and if you need more detail, just ask.
EDIT: Also, one can make the Run Configuration Project URL the complete url http://project/user/12 and leave the Index File and Arguments blank and that works too without any special code in controller. (tested in NetBeans 7.1). I think I will start using this method.
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Completely working Banno simple-plugin-example using one AWS Linux server with NodeJS copied to be transitioned to work under a Microsoft IIS server with NodeJS and URL Rewrites and all that entails basically worked out; but fails when it gets to actual process of OATH apparently as getting a "Cannot GET /v0/oidc/auth" response. Tried a number of ideas; but looking for some ideas to try.
I'm unable to reproduce the behavior that you saw, which makes me wonder if you ran into a temporary blip.
Assuming that we're talking about the latest version (commit c8775db2e3d9ecb4ce9ca708475d81d5936adf0e) of the Simple Plugin Example, then there are a few things to check and/or try.
It'll be good to check that the environment value in your config.js is correct. The config-EXAMPLE.js in the repo uses https://digital.garden-fi.com which matches up with the Garden demo financial institution. However, if you're not running this with a Client ID and Client Secret that's from Garden (i.e. this is with a different financial institution) then you'll have to change that environment value as appropriate for your financial institution.
It'll be good to double-check that the Client ID and Client Secret match up with your External Application which is configured for your plugin.
If you're running the Simple Plugin Example locally, then you can try navigating to the http://localhost:8080/dynamic URL which is expected by the plugin when the code is run locally. This is a good way to figure out if the sample code itself is running as expected.
Assuming the above is fine, it'll be good to double-check the "URL Rewrites" which you mentioned...it's unclear what those URL rewrites are doing, but it's possible that you have some code which is interfering with what the sample code is expecting.
I've been wondering how to fetch the PlayStation server status. They display it on this page:
https://status.playstation.com/en-us/
But PlayStation is known to use APIs instead of PHP database fetches. After looking around in the source code of the site, I found that they have a separate file called /data.json.
https://status.playstation.com/en-us/data.json
The content of this file is the same as the index file (for some reason). They use stuff like {{endDateTitle}} and {{message}}, but I can't find where it's defined, if it's pulled using a separate file or just pulled from a database using PHP.
How can I "reverse" this site and see if there's a API I can use to display the status on my site?
Maybe I did not get the question right, but it seems pretty straightforward.
If using firefox, open Developer tools, Network. Reload the page.
You can clearly see the requested URL
https://status.playstation.com/data/statuses/region/SCEA.json
It seems that an empty list as a status means "No problems" (since there are no problems I cannot verify this assumption. That's all
The parenthesis {{}} are used by various HTML templating languages, like angular, so you'd have to go through the js code to understand where they get updated.
I just came across a website pagesource and saw this in the header:
<link href="../css/style.css?V1" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
Could we actually pass GET data to css? I tried searching but found no results apart from using PHP. Could anyone help make meaning of the ?V1 after the .css
I know this forum is for asking programming problems, however I decided to ask this since I have found no results in my searches
First of all, no you can't pass GET parameters to CSS. Sorry. That would have been great though.
As for the example url. It can either be a CSS page generated by any web server (doesn't have to be PHP). In this case the server can serve different pages or versions of the same page which might explain the meaning of V1, Version 1. The server can also dynamically generate the page with a server-side template. This is an example from the Jade documentaion:
http://cssdeck.com/labs/learning-the-jade-templating-engine-syntax
It can also just be used as cache buster, for versioning purposes. Whenever you enter a url the browser will try to fetch it only if it doesn't already have a cached copy which is specific to that URL. If you have made a change in your content (in this instance the css file) and you want the browser to use it and not the cached version you can change the url and trick the browser to think it's a new resource that is not cached, so it'll fetch the new content from the server. V1 can then have a symantic meaning to the developer serving as a note (ie I've changed this file once...twice..etc) but not actually do anything but break the cache. This question addresses cache busting.
There are different concepts.
At first, it only is a link - it has a name, it might have an extension, but this is just a convention for humans, and nothing more than a resource identifier for the server. Once the browser requests it, it becomes a server request for a resource. The server then decides how to handle this request. It might be a simple file it just has to return, it might be a server side script, which has to be executed by a server side scripting interpreter, or basically anything else you can imagine.
Again, do not trick yourself in thinking "this is a CSS file", just because it has a css extension, or is called style.
Whatever runs at the server, and actually answers the request, will return something. And this something then is given a meaning. It might be CSS, it might be HTML, it might be JavaScript, or an image or just a binary download. To help the browser to understand what it is, the server returns a Content-Type header.
If no content type is given, the browser has to guess what it is. Or the nice web author gave a hint on what to expect as response - in this case he gave the hint of text/css. Again, this is how the returned content should be interpreted by the client/browser, not how that content is supposed to created on the server side.
And about the ?V1? This could mean different things. Maybe the user can configure a style (theme) for the website and this method is used to dispatch different styles. Or it can be used for something called "cache busting" (look it up).
You can pass whatever you want; the server decides what to do with the data.
After all, PHP isn't your only option for creating a server. If i wrote a server in Node.js, set up a route for /css/style.css and made it return different things depending on what query was given, neither the server nor browser will bat an eyelid.
From the google site, I cam across a code that lets me display the recaptcha box. Although I must admit I have only started html today and hence, have no basics at all. The site does not have a verify code in html although it does in jsp and I dont know how to link it all since data from the html went to the servlet.
https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/verify
specifis a list of parameters to be 'posted'
I am using Tomcat 7 and no Spring.
My doubts:
Can I have multiple forms in an html file
How do i send parameters from the precious form to the second form?
How do I link a jsp file that will verify it to be run through the java class invoked by the html file
How do I get the user (accessing my app through a local server) remote IP address?
Got sorted out. Since I did not understand the problem in that, I proceeded to simple captcha itself. I must admit I feel like a fool saying I din't know html/jsp. The second day it was all so clear. I must have been positively psyched. Unwilling to see the not working code again, I started fresh.
Answers :
I can have multiple forms in a html
as set and get parameter as a session and request functions respectively.
through a form itself or response.sendredirect("")
Remote address class and methods.
-Hello, looking for some help.
We currently have a winform app used to do approvals in our company. The app sends html emails to the "approvers" who read the relevant info in the email and click on a hyperlink which launches the app so they can do their approval.
Currently this is done by including the following in the email html:
<a href=file:///C:\Temp\test.exe>Click to Approve</a>
This correctly launches the app, after a couple of security warnings which we are OK with. We use Outlook 2010.
Now, in order to improve this process I would need to pass an argument identifying the approver to the app. This works correctly if I pass the argument from, say, a windows shortcut, however, I cannot find a way to pass the argument to the exe in the href attribute in order to do it from the email. I looked everywhere, and found nothing except questions.
I have tried the following to no avail:
<a href=file:///C:\Temp\test.exe approverID>Click to Approve</a>
<a href=file:///C:\Temp\test.exe 'approverID'>Click to Approve</a>
Click to Approve
Also I have tried doing it with JavaScript, which from an HTML page works fine, but not from an email in Outlook.
I thought maybe there is a security threat with this approach hence it is not possible, but if I can successfully from an email run an exe, why can I not run an exe with parameters? It doesnt make sense.
Thank you for your help.
Leo
after not getting any suitable responses and after continuing my research for this without success, I will temporarily conclude that what I am looking for is not possible. If the reasons for this not being possible concern security, then I am completely puzzled as to why running an exe without parameters is allowed and therefore considered LESS harmful than running an exe with parameters. Surely, an exe does not require parameters to be harmful. If anyone would care to elaborate on this, it would be educational for me, thank you.
Nevertheless, I have thought of an alternative to my problem, which is not as elegant as would otherwise be stating parameters in href, but it serves my purpose. Because our app is run from a network drive, I have changed it so that it creates user-specific cmd files on the network drive and the hyperlink in the email it creates points to these cmd instead of the exe. That way, the cmd files contains the call to the exe with the correct parameters and as the cmd files are very light and quickly written, this is OK.
I am closing this as "answered", but it is not.
Thanks for taking your time to read.
Leo
I recommend you take a look to "How to create a protocol and assign it an app with parameters".
Example : http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914.aspx
I have had the same problem and one alternative I have found was to create a .bat file that is attached to the e-mail that includes the command line and respective parameters, the user double-click the attachment, confirms that wants to open the file and the .bat runs. It is not as cleaner as the link but I guess It is an acceptable workaround in some cases.
Important: My OS is Win7 and e-mail client is Lotus Notes, I am not sure if this alternative works with other mail clients/OSs .