We’re in the process of upgrading our webservers to Windows 2003 and thus IIS6. One of the issues we ran into was that the Server_Name key of the ServerVariables collection in VBScript started returning the computer name of the machine rather than the host name of the website. I spent a couple hours googling [...]
One of the bugs I tracked down a couple months ago dealt with the different ways in which ASP and Java handle URL encoding in a cookies. ASP automatically encodes and decodes cookie values (without you telling it too even though it the Server object has a method ‘URLEncode’ which does the same job) [...]
I’m working on a project right now that involves a store written in Java using Struts and a sister site written in ASP. One of the features of the store requires that the sister site use some logic written in Java, which you might think is impossible. Turns out (doesn’t it always?) that you can [...]
Worked around a nasty issue on an ASP site today, I’m was using the MSXML2.XMLHTTP.4.0 object to post an XML packet to a SOAP server. Worked great on our development and staging servers, but I installed it (the app) on the client server today and get this… calling the send() method completely hangs IIS, [...]
I wrote an article for Macromedia Devnet which was just published today! Check it out here: Server-Side Flash Detection Using BrowserHawk. If you’ve never used BrowserHawk before, it’ll be a good introduction. However, if you’ve used it with ColdFusion, you should definitely read it, I was able to use BrowserHawk [...]
Created an ActiveX dll today to create GUID’s for FootJoy.com orders. Course, it was pretty easy since this article, entitled “Build a GUID generating component”, essentially does it for me.
Registering and unregistering components is a bear, the scripts on this site make it easier.
Working on Phase II of the FootJoy site, today I used pseuo-SOAP(really just sending an receiving XML packets that conform to the SOAP specification using the MS XMLHTTPRequest object, which I guess would make it SOAP, wouldn’t it?), Stored Procedures, and XPATH to connect two systems. Have to remind myself that sometimes I do [...]
After posting an order on the ecommerce site I’m working on, we have to get tax information and authorize the users credit card. Both of these functions (Vertex for tax and viaWarp for Credit Cards) live on a different machine than the webservers in the cluster, so I thought it made sense to use [...]
The new footjoy.com launched today @ 12:55pm. The site took almost exactly 3 months to complete including IA, design, and programming. It’s runs against SQL Server 2000, makes extensive use of XML, and aggresively caches content in memory. Now on to the next phase…
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