Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Social networking in Radiospace. Weblogs often list affiliated weblogs as a column of links which Doc Searls first named a blogroll. A couple of months ago, on my Radio weblog, I tried a variation on this idea. Rather than hand-edit my blogroll, I wrote a script that automatically reads the list of RSS channels to which I subscribe, in Radio's news aggregator, and echoes that list on my homepage. With a tip of the hat to Doc, I called this widget a channelroll. ... 1:35:03 PM

Zope Page Templates and DTML. Jeffrey P Shell follows up with more on Zope Page Templates: ... 8:47:11 AM

Spoofing URLs With Unicode [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 8:47:07 AM

James posts the sample I was looking for, thanks. So there's no way to say it returns a particular SOAP message then ? 8:47:07 AM

Anyone have a WSDL sample that shows how to describe a HTTP GET that returns a SOAP message ? 8:47:07 AM

Congratulations to Sam Ruby who was just elected to the Apache Board of Directors. 8:47:07 AM

Anyone know how to get STLPort and CppUnit to play nicely together ? 8:47:06 AM

No HTTP compression for the .NET Compact Framework, this is seems like a strange move, its seems to me that PocketPC based apps have the most to gain from supporting this. 8:47:06 AM

HTTP digest authentication interop issues 8:47:06 AM

Looking at some User Agent stats from soap.4s4c.com I see that IE is advertising what updates/patches are installed, e.g. Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0;+Q312461;+.NET+CLR+1.0.3705), I'm guessing that the presense of the Q312461 part means that the patch detailed in this KB article is installed. Seems like a great way to enable some targetted attacks, any requests to a server from IE without Q312461 in the user agent string is vunerable. [note to self, use Opera 6 by default] 8:47:06 AM

COMUnit is a Visual Basic port of the JUnit framework that is designed to facilitate developing unit tests for Microsoft COM components and Visual Basic applications. Just started porting my somewhat ad-hoc collection of tests cases for PocketSOAP to COMUnit, I like it so far. 8:47:06 AM

Cool, looks like my etag suggestion fell on reciptive ears, Joe has added this to Aggie, and DJ Adams has written an etag aware wget.pl 8:47:05 AM

soap.4s4c.com now has a WSIL file 8:47:05 AM

Bill Kearney has some comments on my earlier suggestion about aggregators using ETags. In response to Bills points, both Apache and IIS will automatically generate ETags for static files, IIS will also serve a Last-Modified header in this case as well [haven't checked this on Apache]. You only make a single pass, supplying the last etag in the next request, this requires you to store the etag value between agregator passes [as does an approach based on Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since]. In the specific case of RSS you'll propbably not see any issues using Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since rather than Etag and If-None-Match, however for HTTP/1.1 Etag is the preffered approach [particularly if you want to support resumable downloads]. In either case you need to store some additional data between requests, so I don't see that one approach is any harder than the other. How easy this is, largely depends on what HTTP client code you're using, as Joe points out this is pretty easy in .NET, I've also done this with libcURL, where its equally easy, YMMV. 8:47:05 AM

There's a new build of the WSDL Wizard for PocketSOAP beta available. 8:47:05 AM