Notes"Following my post yesterday about delaying the loading of avatar images to cut down on HTTP requests I was wondering if there is a way to do this without having to resort to a server side solution. In short, there is."Unfurl
Notes"Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an Application Programming Interface (API). This document is a reference for that functionality, and aims to serve as a reference for developers building tools that talk to Twitter."Unfurl
Notes"Put the main application logic into a RESTful server. This is where all the CRUD-style access to resources takes place. Then, write a second proxy ... When browser-based users need to interact with your resources, they actually connect to this proxy."Unfurl
Notes"To maintain a high level of security, the Authentication Proxy interface, AuthSub, enables the application to get an authentication token without ever handling the user's account login information."Unfurl
Notes"if a resource is tied to a single row in a table then a simple timestamp or revision number on the row is a good source of information for generating an etag"Unfurl
Notes"For status codes, if the given zipcode is not a valid one then we will return a 404 Not Found, and a PNG of a red X, otherwise we return a 200 Ok for the happy green checkmark."Unfurl
Notes"The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it because you're coming from digg.com and the proprietor of this system is frankly terrified by you people."Unfurl
Notes"URI Templates are strings that can be transformed into URIs after embedded variables are substituted. This document defines the structure and syntax of URI Templates."Unfurl
Notes"SimpleHTTPServer listens to port 50000, uses the path of the request-URL to construct a new URL by inserting "http://" at the beginning, loads this new URL and renders its contents to a PDF file."Unfurl
Notes"there are some rather useful ... Cocoa classes that are most helpful for writing a web server. In this article I will show you what they are and how to use them."Unfurl
Notes"If you work with more than one proxy on a regular basis, you probably know how annoying it is to keep track of them; not to mention the number of clicks it takes to switch between."Unfurl
Notes"The Proxybutton extension gives you a single button that you may place on your toolbar and whenever you need to turn proxy on and off quickly."Unfurl
Notes"I just noticed last week that some of the online web aggregators (such as bloglines, newsgator online, live journal, etc) will send the number of subscribers in their HTTP user agent."Unfurl
Notes"Instead of awkwardly typing on your phone's keypad something to the extent of "cant find yr house" or theyre charging a cover here at this venue, try using server response codes!"Unfurl
Notes"First, that the Web may be regarded as a kind of tuplespaces and, second, that the HTTP + WebDAV protocol stack may be treated formally as a coordination language."Unfurl
Notes"If it is a misstep in the code, why not keep APP on the straight and narrow, and make APP good enough that the cheap boats will rise to take advantage of it."Unfurl
Notes"A few months ago a fellow named Jean-Michel Hiver posted that you could in fact do a clean and modern log-in browser interface using only AJAX methods."Unfurl
Notes"A comprehensive HTTP client library, httplib2.py supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries." Huzzah - some great updates beyond httpcache.py, a module from which I've gotten much mileage.Unfurl
Notes"Following on from the earlier post re. outliners, if we’re talking about Gopher done with XML over HTTP, it might as well exploit some of the other facilities that have become readily available since 1992."Unfurl
NotesHuh. Maybe they're not bastards for once: "So, Microsoft is in fact sticking to the RFC this time, something they should have done long time ago."Unfurl
Notes"A forthcoming update to Internet Explorer will disallow the use of the '@' character in URLs." Gah. Bastards. Don't fix your software, break the URL scheme.Unfurl
NotesRSS feeds over SSL behind HTTP auth is hype-worthy? Oh yeah, I forgot. Everyone likes to reinvent HTTP. Though maybe, just maybe, this particular implementation has some interesting things about it.Unfurl