It’s a security hardening mechanism. Essentially, it helps protecting against CSRF type of attacks where the attacker reads a JavaScript array (downloaded as Json) from a victim website. They can do that by overriding JavaScript’s Array type. d causes the returned Json to not be an array and thus turns Array overriding useless for the … Read more
Option 1: “get” task Ant’s get task can be used to invoke web services, but it restricted to GET operations. Only works for very simple web services Option 2: curl Invoke the unix curl command to call the webservice (See this post for examples) <target name=”invoke-webservice”> <exec executable=”curl”> <arg line=”-d ‘param1=value1¶m2=value2’ http://example.com/resource.cgi”/> </exec> </target> Note: … Read more
Direct database access couples you tightly to the schema. Any changes on either end affects the other. But it’s got the virtues of being simple and requiring one less network hop. A web service means better abstraction and looser coupling via one additional level of indirection. A web service can act as the single steward … Read more
Register the MultiPartWriter provider when creating the Client: ClientConfig cc = new DefaultClientConfig(); Client client; cc.getClasses().add(MultiPartWriter.class); client = Client.create(cc); If using Maven, these are the dependencies you need in your pom.xml: <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-client</artifactId> <version>1.17.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-multipart</artifactId> <version>1.17.1</version> </dependency>
According to this you should be able to get one with the InitializeSecurityContext windows API call.
You can use this class. I didn’t remember where i found the basic code, i added some methods and convert to class before. public class WebService { public string Url { get; set; } public string MethodName { get; set; } public Dictionary<string, string> Params = new Dictionary<string, string>(); public XDocument ResultXML; public string ResultString; … Read more
do your users have to log into your website to use it? if you also are making use of a password authentication scheme, you could piggy back on top of that. Use the login password for your site as a cipherkey in a symmetric key cipher to encrypt the api password. then you need only … Read more
JSONP is simply a hack to allow web apps to retrieve data across domains. It could be said that it violates the Same Origin Policy (SOP). The way it works is by using Javascript to insert a “script” element into your page. Therefore, you need a callback function. If you didn’t have one, your Javascript … Read more
Does Endpoint.publish use the tomcat server to host this or is it a mini glassfish kind of server? JAX-WS RI Endpoint.publish API uses by default a light-weight HTTP server implementation that is included in Sun’s Java SE 6. So no, it does not use an embedded GlassFish nor an embedded Tomcat and even less your … Read more
There are only 3 ways to generate unique values, rather they be passwords, user IDs, etc.: Use an effective GUID generator – these are long and cannot be shrunk. If you only use part you FAIL. At least part of the number is sequentially generated off of a single sequence. You can add fluff or … Read more