Check out JSON.org for an up-to-date list (see bottom of main page) of JSON parsers in many different languages. As of the time of this writing, you’ll see a link to several different JSON parsers there, but only one is for VB6/VBA (the others are .NET): VB-JSON When I tried to download the zip file, … Read more
I looked fairly deeply into this question for a project I am working on. GeoNames.org and EarthTools.com are both good options for many situations but with the following serious flaws: GeoNames.org finds the time zone by searching for the nearest point in their database that contains a time zone field. This often leads to the … Read more
I noticed this question a couple of days late, but I feel that I can add some insight. I hope this can be helpful towards your RESTful venture. Point 1: Am I understanding it right? You understood right. That is a correct representation of a RESTful architecture. You may find the following matrix from Wikipedia … Read more
A great resource to pick the correct HTTP error code for your API: http://www.codetinkerer.com/2015/12/04/choosing-an-http-status-code.html An excerpt from the article: Where to start: 2XX/3XX: 4XX: 5XX:
We encountered same issue and, alongside the great suggestions above, Google appears to have two complementary APIs, one for Time Zone from geocode (latitude/longitude) data and the geocode API. For example, to get the time zone and offset for San Francisco: 1) Convert the city to a geocoded location: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=San%20Francisco,+CA&sensor=false The geocoded location is in … Read more
First of all, the cross domain check is performed by the browser, not the server. When the JavaScript makes an XmlHttpRequest to a server other than its origin, if the browser supports CORS it will initialize a CORS process. Or else, the request will result in an error (unless user has deliberately reduced browser security) … Read more
The limit is dependent on both the server and the client used (and if applicable, also the proxy the server or the client is using). Most web servers have a limit of 8192 bytes (8 KB), which is usually configurable somewhere in the server configuration. As to the client side matter, the HTTP 1.1 specification even … Read more
Maybe this question was auto-corrected and is meant to be ” is it possible for a single web domain to have multiple websites?” If this is what is meant, the answer is yes. Multiple websites are achieved by using virtual hosts.