Questions tagged [internet]
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Should non-browser applications connect to a URL?
I have written a game that users will download. When the game is started, I want it to automatically connect to the matchmaking server. Does that mean that, somewhere in the source code for the game, ...
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Implementation of DHCP protocol?
I am taking a networking course, and am trying to understand protocols such as tcp/ip, DHCP etc.
I did a google search for the source-code for TCP/IP protocol, and learnt that it resides in the kernel ...
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Is it possible to connect two devices on the internet if both are behind NAT using this method?
If i understand NAT correctly, by default a device outside of the NAT cannot reach a device inside it. If the two devices use a central server to connect however they can obviously communicate. My ...
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Is it possible to implement a RESTful API with a protocol other than HTTP(S)?
I was confused by the distinction between REST and HTTP, and I found this article that cleared things up for me. In summary, it explained that REST is a set of general principles for web communication,...
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Creating an internet gateway for a Bluetooth Low Energy device
I have a device that connects using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). I want it to communicate with a server over the internet using a smartphone as a gateway.
I have thought of different approaches and I ...
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Why does YouTube save Restricted Content filter locally?
I was scrolling down on my YouTube Homepage and found that beside the filter marked Restricted Content, a point mentioned that the setting of this filter applies to this browser only. Here's the ...
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Why multicast IP use TTL setted as 1?
I am wondering why multicast messages like the membership query and the membership report have a TimeToLive setted to 1. I mean: messages like these shouldn't be retransmitted over the net (for ...
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Making apps communicate with each other (?)
A friend of me and I would like to easily know if stuff like chores were done, and we're both in two different locations.
So, would it be very hard (would I need a lot of experience?) and take a lot ...
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Slow Internet vs Slow System Response Hosted by Local Server
How does slow internet access affects the response time of a web based system hosted on local server that is being access by other clients from the local server?
I'm accessing the web based system on ...
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Android continually checking Internet, Bluetooth and GPS status?
In my app I want the ability to continually check for Internet, Bluetooth and GPS status (if one is off/on). I need each of these to be on at all times for my application to work effectively.
For ...
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How to debug javascript in browsers that don't have a console interface? [closed]
It's unbelievable but my company is still building web app on IE 6. Although the online dashboard for IE 6 is limited in functionality, I've found extremely difficult to debug anything on it. It's ...
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What is a URI Scheme?
I have searched for this question, but I haven't found a good answer.
Even the Wikipedia Article on URIs does not explain it thoroughly. I thought it was the protocol for accessing a web page. e.g. ...
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Is there any way to establish a direct connection between 2 mobile devices over internet?
In the company I’m working we have our own iOS\Android\WP apps which allow our employees to share a certain type of files to each other. This app works through our server but recently we encountered ...
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Does streaming video pass through the website's server when embedded with javascript from another site?
Not sure how else to phrase this question, so my apologies if it's been asked before.
We use Brightcove for streaming video. They offer an option to embed one of their players on your webpage using ...
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Is there any algorithm pattern to protect any content in the web to ensure I am the first one who created it?
A few years ago there was this hacker (don't remember who he was) that full disclosed a vulnerability in a given system, but to make sure nobody took credit for that, he created some kind of PGP key.
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Angular UI's $StateProvider [duplicate]
I was thinking of using Angular UI, and specifically its $StateProvider, which makes it easy to create nested views, in my next application. Until now, I have been using vanilla Angular's ngInclude ...
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Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer? [closed]
Why did the creators of the Internet Protocol decide to use IP addresses to identify a particular computer?
Why not just have a unique ID assigned to each computer upon manufacture, then use that ID ...
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How much time should you allow for clock skew?
We are writing a B2B application that uses OAuth 2.0. Before a token expires we want to refresh it since it is faster to refresh a token, than to request a new one. However, we want to build in some ...
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In need of a more technical answer for an interview question about how the internet works from beginning to end [closed]
I've had interviews with 5 separate people over the past two weeks and three of those five have all asked me this question: Explain what happens between hitting "Google.com" and the page coming up on ...
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Better server to client communication mechanism over HTTP
I have a single server with several clients. I want to push messages to a particular client at a given time. Clients should not polling to the server. what are good patterns and practices to solve ...
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Why did Alan Kay say, "The Internet was so well done, but the web was by amateurs"?
OK, so I paraphrased. The full quote:
The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the ...
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How to find a 'good' seed page for a web crawler? [closed]
I started building a web crawler and read somewhere that it's a very hard problem to find a good seed page for the crawler. Can anyone explain me if there is any pre-defined procedure/ guidlines of ...
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What happens when an unexpected packet arrives at a computer? [closed]
I have been wondering this for a few days. I basically understand how networks and packets work. But what happends when an unexpected packet arrives? Like, when I didn't send a request for a website's ...
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Soft Real Time Internet Aplication
I am building a tutoring application that multiple students can sign into the same session with a tutor.
My question is, for example, if I sent out a command to draw a line, do I need to wait to see ...
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What does path finding in internet routing do and how is it different from A*?
Note: If you don't understand this question then feel free to ask clarification in the comments instead of voting down, it might be that this question needs some more work at the moment. I've been ...
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Does a webapp need a connection monitoring feature?
I developing a client using Flex and ActionScript that is run in the browser and communicates with our server backend. There has been concern that the application "needs" to have a graphic indicator ...
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How to protect a peer-to-peer network from inappropriate content?
I’m developing a simple peer-to-peer app in .Net which should enable users to share specific content (text and picture files). Inappropriate content can “relatively” easily be identified / controlled ...
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How is IETF different from W3C?
I've been following these organizations (institutes, entities, whatever) for near 3 months now, and both of them claim that they're trying to make the Internet a better place. They're creating ...
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Why are we still using the DOM in the browser rather than a desktop paradigm
From my understanding, the web interface was developed to use HTML because at the time it wasn't possible to simulate a desktop style application in the browser such as how Silverlight and Flash work, ...
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What is the history behind the .NET platform's origins?
I watched Douglas Crockford's JavaScript talks recently, and at one point, he said that Microsoft did not consider JavaScript important because they saw the web as a passing phase of internet usage ...
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How can I program effectively during an Internet outage? [closed]
So much of development is now done online to take advantage of interconnectivity and shared resources. In a prolonged Internet outage, how can one cope with the lack of that connection? Are there ways ...
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Is Java Plug-in still relevant? [closed]
When I challenged Chrome development team about their decision to block every version of the Java Plug-in by default (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84001). They answered that Java ...
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Understanding the stateless internet [closed]
I'm transitioning from being a desktop developer to a web developer, and I'm having trouble understanding why HTTP is stateless. What are the reasons for it? What are some ways a desktop developer ...
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Source code for TCP/IP stack
Am looking for an open source code for the TCP/IP stack. An explanation along the lines of the stack would also help me in understanding the different modules and their interactions. I tried searching ...
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Can we assume that all users today have Internet access?
As the Internet is pretty much ubiquitous, can we as developers assume that all users have Internet access? Now I don't mean that the code is written in such a way that if there is no connection then ...
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How do I sell my software on the Internet? [closed]
I'd like to sell my software on the 'net but am not sure how to do the whole Merchant setup. I have access to Commerce Server 2009, and I want to seem professional so a plain old PayPal account is ...
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