A great portion of mobile applications consumes data from HTTP services. This is usually achieved as a pull scenario in which apps initiate the data flow from the server. In many cases pushing data to the client is a more natural and potentially much better solution. In this blog post I will explore...

In this blog post I am going to show how you can host ASP.NET Web API services under Gentoo Linux and OS X on top of Mono’s ASP.NET implementation. I will use Nginx and FastCGI to communicate between HTTP server and Mono. A couple of months ago I’ve experimented with running ASP.NET Web API on a Li...

In this article I will explain the concepts behind HMAC authentication and will show how to write an example implementation for ASP.NET Web API using message handlers. The project will include both server and client side (using Web API’s HttpClient) bits.

Blog pos showingt how to provide Basic HTTP authentication in ASP.NET Web API with support for membership and role providers by extending framework’s AuthotrizeAttribute.

Windows Phone 7.1 + MicroFramework (How use a windows phone device as remote control of a Fez Panda II/MicroFramework board - there is also a video on youtube).

The tools help to check the HTTP URL redirection also gives the server response status codes.

The ASP.NET MVC framework introduces the concept of returning an ActionResult in Controllers since the "preview preview" release on CodePlex. The purpose of this concept is to return a generic ActionResult object for each Controller method, allowing different child classes returning differ...

I have been a huge fan of Fiddler the HTTP Debugging Proxy for a couple years now. However one thing that always bugged me about any network debugging tool was the fact that it could debug localhost or 127.0.0.1. However I just found a solution while racking my brain for a way to debug one of my loc...

Most developers are familiar with the HTTP 1.0 Status Codes, that have been recently popularized by the SEO guys. We have all heard that you should use 301 Moved Permanently instead of 302 Temporary Redirect. What many of the SEO guys won’t tell you, because they don’t know any better, is that they ...

If there's one reason to go to ApacheCon 07 in Atlanta, then it's probably Roy T. Fielding's "a little REST and Relaxation" While there isn't a whole lot of information available on WAKA (that replacement for HTTP Roy mentions in the end of the abstract). Belwo are a few links I managed...

To redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite you can use the following rewriting rules in your httpd.ini file ...

Decrease your website's bandwidth requirements by turning on HTTP Compression on your IIS 6.0 web server.

This method will add a meta-tag that specifies the same content-type as the HTTP header does. That way you just have to change the encoding in the web.config and it will automatically change the meta-tag accordingly.