Date: 05/18/06 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: mysql, browser, sql, web

Hey folks, another newbie-to-mysql-on-windows question here, and many thanks again to the help on my previous one...

In my previous mysql experience on unix-like platforms, it was generally considered a Good Thing to turn off networking if you didn't "need" it, just talking directly to the mysqld instead. In cases where a local web stack on the same box was all that ever needed to talk to mysql, this worked well, and unless I'm smoking crack, it even seemed to perform a little better than chatting on 3306 using TCP/IP and worrying about telling either the daemon or the firewall (or both) to restrict such conversations to localhost.

Somewhat naively, I tried to do this in Windows today and got some unexpected results.

I'm working with an old version of coldfusion and modern mysql and recently discovered that rather than the "use an old version of Connector J" method mentioned in the Macromedia knowledge base, I can just install the nice current version of the mysql ODBC Connector, then set up a system DSN right in Windows. I tell coldfusion to use this "ODBC socket" and poof, things seem pretty quick. So great, I think, now that I'm not using the old Connector J which seemed to require a TCP/IP method, now I should be able to skip networking in the mysql daemon and just tell the system DSN config where the "socket" is.

Not so simple! I turned off networking (using mysql Administrator, since I'm trying to "be GUI" about this) and as expected, it uncommented "skip networking" in the my.ini file. However, after this, Windows couldn't start the mysql service anymore. Furthermore, the Administrator and Query Browser didn't seem to be able to connect without a port number. As soon as I re-enabled networking by editing the my.ini file, everything was fine.

Did I miss something? Am I smoking crack? Should I just leave well enough alone and use networking with mysql configured to only allow connections from localhost and Windows told not to expose 3306 to the outside world?

All opinions welcome - just please don't suggest "use something other than crutsy old cold fusion" because unfortunately that's not really an option. TIA!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/95724.html

Date: 05/19/06 (Apache)    Keywords: browser, apache

Hi all,

I need to be able to use localhost when I am not online,

When my browser sends a request to apache my firewall asks

do I allow apache http server to access the internet?
destination IP: 10.1.1.1:DNS

Why would localhost need to access my router?

If I am not in the vicinity of my router, or I say no, I get

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Now how can I configure apache to not need to access my router?

thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/32577.html

Date: 05/22/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser

This is incredible. I'm starting to like Safari much better than Firefox. If it isn't one problem, it's another.

So now certain fonts won't show up on my Firefox. I've disabled all my extensions and I still get the same problem. It's most frequent with italicized fonts. I was wondering if it was just my computer, but I'll check the same page with Safari and it's fine with that browser, just not FF.

Anyone have ideas on what's up?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/362574.html

Date: 05/22/06 (PHP Development)    Keywords: php, browser, database, linux

Hello All.

I want to write an application that does the following.

1)Upload an image from browser,
2)Resize the image to 300 x N
3)Save the image to a database table or file system.
4)Create a thumbnail of that image sized to 75 x N
5) Save the thumbnail to a database table or file system.

I have all mechanics of the database table or file structure down as well as the uploading of the file. I am not sure how to do the image editing part however. I am assuming after some research that the GD library is what I want to use. Is that correct? Or do I have to write an interface to GIMP? That wont work, because although I am developing on Linux its gonna end up on a Windows server.

Can I install GD after PHP has been installed?

Thanks for any advice on how to accomplish this task.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php_dev/68567.html

Date: 05/23/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, web

New worm installs a rogue Web browser and hijacks the Internet Explorer home page on infected PCs.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6075401.html

Date: 05/23/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: browser, database, asp, microsoft

Ok here's the situation. I have an ASP.net app that gets a file from a database and then prompts the user to run, saveAs, or cancel the file. The code is:

Response.Buffer = True
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" & ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("reqJobDescName"))
Response.ContentType = "application / msword"
Response.BinaryWrite(myData)

The problem is that if you click on Run, the file opens up in another browser. I want it to be opened by the actual program. Therefore, I don't want this to "run" on another browser window that has Microsoft Word in it. I want Microsoft Word to open up the file directly. Is there any way to do this? I have to figure there is, although perhaps it can't be done in Response since that is all based on httpResponse. Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/67367.html

Date: 05/24/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, browser, web

Ok I just upgraded to PHP5 and started using GD. I have a function that takes an image name, a name for a thumbnail, a width and a height it then creates a thumbnail.

I got the function from here. http://icant.co.uk/articles/phpthumbnails/

I only use the createthumb function and its in a file all by itself. I plug in the variables at the start and then run it from the command line. It works like a champ.

However when I put the function into my functions file and try to run it from the web application it fails. Even if I plug in the vars at the start of the function it fails with this error:

[client 192.168.40.254] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagecreatefromjpeg()

How is it that the function is undefined? Same server, same directory, same variables. Could it be the user? When I run from the command line I am myself but from the web browser I have different permissions. I am very confused.

Any light you all can shed on this would be great.

Thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/453008.html

Date: 05/25/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: browser, html

Anyone know a way to quickly generate individual HTML pages for images?

(For example:  I want to create a gallery where the full size images come up in their own browser window.  So I’d like to know if there is a way to automate the production of these pages to speed up production.)

Thanks--

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2306773.html

Date: 05/28/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: programming, browser

I'm kind of new at the whole C#/Windows GUI programming thing, so sorry if this is a dumb question.

I'm working on a program and I want it to be able to launch links in an external browser. I found that you can use the Process class to do this, and if you even just hand the URL to the Process's "filename", it opens with whatever the user's default HTTP-handling application is. So I've got links launching in Firefox and everything, which is great. But I'd like it to send the link to be opened in Firefox without losing focus on my application.
I tried setting some of the Process.StartInfo members (like WindowStyle as minimized, even though that's not what I want) and then tried going about it the other way around, by just calling this.Activate() from the form that's calling the Process.Start() method, but that doesn't work either. Is there anything I can do to keep my application focused when launching a different process?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/63983.html

Date: 06/01/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser

So I was reading this article this morning about quirks and strict modes for browsers. After reading it I set up a page according to its recommendations, I think. The page has a header with 3 columns underneath of it. In IE the left most of the 3 columns seem to have extra margin on the left whereas in Firefox the header and the left column line up properly. Here is a link.

I may need coffee as I woke up early to my dog freaking out because of a thunderstorm. If someone could explain what I did wrong due to lack of coffee and brain cells.

Thanks

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1118862.html

Date: 06/02/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, browser, java

I’m passing variables through the URL, to determine the content of a dynamic (php) page.

But I’d like to open this URL in a new browser window with specific height and width settings.

I know how to open a new window with those settings using javascript….

But I don’t know how to do both --  pass the variables AND use the javascript.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/456256.html

Date: 06/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, asp

I've got a "tell a friend" script I found for ASP that works fine in Firefox. It however, does not work fine in IE (and here I was thinking IE was the most forgiving browser!)

When you click on the "Mail It" link, you get a pop-up window with fields for your name, friend's name and email address. The comment area shows "I found an article I thought you'd like to see:" and then it should show the URL.

In IE, the URL does not show up. In Firefox, it does.

If anyone can help, that would be great. Not sure if I should post code here or what...

Thanks,
Chris

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1119361.html

Date: 06/02/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, security, web

Update to popular open-source Web browser addresses a dozen security vulnerabilities, five of which are deemed critical.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6079504.html

Date: 06/03/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web

The font within my browser has changed and I cannot figure out how to change it back. I have a Mac OS X and have the latest version of Firefox. I was downloading fonts a couple of days ago and the next time I opened my browser, I realized that most of the text on pages I visit would change to this new font. I wouldn't mind it so much but the font it has changed to is a very funky one that is difficult to read on a webpage. I went into the Preferences to see if I could fix the problem within the Fonts options, but all the settings were still the same and looked like they hadn't changed. The only way I can get my browser text to look normal is if I uncheck the box under the Advanced font options that allows webpages to use their own fonts. (This is also screwing up webpages a little bit.)

Does anyone know what is wrong or how I can fix this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/364455.html

Date: 06/06/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, web

can someone tell me if there is a later version of IE than IE 5 for the Mac?
i'm designing a web page and want to make sure it's compliant in all browsers...

also, does anyone have any good sites or places to "take" your website to find out why CSS is working in some browsers and not in others?

thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1120851.html

Date: 06/06/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser, css, html

I'm working on a program that needs to be able to automatically modify some given HTML, wrapping text with links. In other words, what originally used to be text will now be a link. The problem is that this link MUST look exactly the same as it did when it was just text (in the same browser). This needs to be done automatically with any given HTML.

Now for the question:
Is there a way to do this without parsing css and calculating the style for the text element, calculating the style for the new link element, and wrapping the text inside the link with a span revesing the effects of the link style? For example, can I specify in a span tag that the included element should not inherit style from its parents?

Any and all ideas are welcome, post away...

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/326950.html

Date: 06/07/06 (Security)    Keywords: software, browser, web

New business is called "Zango" after 180solutions' ad-displaying software. The Hotbar Web browser toolbar will still be distributed.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6081142.html

Date: 06/09/06 (HTML Help)    Keywords: browser, css

Is there a way to prevent users from increasing their text size?

More specifically, how can I do this for the  FireFox browser?

(I don’t have a problem doing this in IE…it seems using CSS tags prevents text resizing in IE)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/htmlhelp/2315037.html

Date: 06/20/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: browser, web

Newest version of browser offers specialized Web-based widget programs, BitTorrent support and pop-up ad blocking.
Video: A tune-up for Opera
Images: BitTorrent and more

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6085759.html

Date: 06/22/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: browser, html, java

Here's a question for an answer to which I've been looking for but haven't found yet. This is more of a HTML/Javascript question than anything else.

Let's say I have the following HTML snippet:

...


some text

here

to fill up the space


...

Is there a way to make the onClick event take precedence over the href link in the browser (short of removing the 'a' tag alltogether)?

I realize that the above snippet is probably not the best coding practice, but it's a result of an automated process which I need to modify.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/329761.html