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Available For Hire / Re: Looking for contract work
« on: June 07, 2024, 11:29:42 AM »
Updated with a link to my webs site.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: mac version of chrome gives snap error 11 with drop down lists (NT 14.20)
« on: April 25, 2024, 10:53:44 AM »
Hi Bruce
It looks like this problem is a bit bigger. I have several users reporting a similar issue with one of my apps. The problem started on Tuesday with Edge browsers on Windows 11. My app was on NT 12 at the time. Last night I updated it to NT 14.21 and today the problem now exists in Chrome. But only one some computers. All 3 of my computers work fine. Firefox is also working fine on any computer tested. I have another app with a much larger user base that isn't having this issue.
Both browsers give a STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW error. The app with the error was originally designed as a disconnected app, but I since disabled that.
Ok, so while I was typing this Chrome started working on my customer's computer that I have a remote desktop for. Edge still isn't working. Maybe they pushed out an update that fixed the issue?
Thanks,
Matthew
It looks like this problem is a bit bigger. I have several users reporting a similar issue with one of my apps. The problem started on Tuesday with Edge browsers on Windows 11. My app was on NT 12 at the time. Last night I updated it to NT 14.21 and today the problem now exists in Chrome. But only one some computers. All 3 of my computers work fine. Firefox is also working fine on any computer tested. I have another app with a much larger user base that isn't having this issue.
Both browsers give a STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW error. The app with the error was originally designed as a disconnected app, but I since disabled that.
Ok, so while I was typing this Chrome started working on my customer's computer that I have a remote desktop for. Edge still isn't working. Maybe they pushed out an update that fixed the issue?
Thanks,
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Insert without a form
« on: April 26, 2023, 10:42:39 AM »
I just did something very similar to what you are describing. My solution was to put my browse inside a from and add a lookup field to the from. I also included an "Add" button as I wanted my users to be able to type in the correct information too.
It should also be possible to include a button on your form that will call your lookup browse and add the record. I haven't done this myself but look at the "LookupAbility Routine" inside your lookup browse to get an idea of what to set to put it in lookup mode. Once the lookup has happened your primary key should be in a session value.
Matthew
It should also be possible to include a button on your form that will call your lookup browse and add the record. I haven't done this myself but look at the "LookupAbility Routine" inside your lookup browse to get an idea of what to set to put it in lookup mode. Once the lookup has happened your primary key should be in a session value.
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Remove file name from File Upload
« on: January 11, 2023, 08:23:44 PM »
So I starting thinking CSS might have the option to affect the first tag of a given type. Turns out it does, I added ' bw-hide-file' to Entry Div Class and the following to Custom.css:
It works perfectly so far, though I need to test a few more devices to be sure.
Matthew
Code: [Select]
.bw-hide-file .nt-upload-table td:first-of-type {
display:none;
}It works perfectly so far, though I need to test a few more devices to be sure.
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: (Nettalk) Webserver security?
« on: January 10, 2023, 06:28:12 PM »
To my knowledge no one has published a security report. It would only be of limited use as it doesn't prove that you didn't introduce vulnerabilities. The best option is to have an internet security firm test your server.
Their are also free services that will have a bot check your server, though these aren't as good. https://www.immuniweb.com/websec/ is one of the better ones.
You can also look over https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_D_v3_Merchant.pdf. It's a checklist created by the credit card industry for web servers handling highly sensitive information. If you can check all, or even most of those boxes you're in a very good position.
Matthew
Their are also free services that will have a bot check your server, though these aren't as good. https://www.immuniweb.com/websec/ is one of the better ones.
You can also look over https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_D_v3_Merchant.pdf. It's a checklist created by the credit card industry for web servers handling highly sensitive information. If you can check all, or even most of those boxes you're in a very good position.
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Remove file name from File Upload
« on: January 10, 2023, 05:43:10 PM »
I have a file upload set to use the camera on a phone. The file name given to these pictures are meaningless, and in the case of my phone overly large (see attachment). So large that the browser is destroying the format of the form trying to display it.
I would like to ether remove/hide the file name, or change it to 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2' etc. I'll then add a browse to show then the pictures that have been uploaded. I can't even figure out where in the code this table is created, or how to add my own css to it.
Thank you
Matthew
I would like to ether remove/hide the file name, or change it to 'Picture 1', 'Picture 2' etc. I'll then add a browse to show then the pictures that have been uploaded. I can't even figure out where in the code this table is created, or how to add my own css to it.
Thank you
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Load balancing
« on: January 04, 2023, 06:06:01 PM »
The theory is quite simple. Capture every change to session data and broadcast that to every other server so they can make the same changes. A separate monitoring program manages the health of each server and collects diagnostics data. The web folder is just a windows mapped drive for now. I want to move the shared folder to S3 storage as I need to use a hack to get the share working with a windows service.
In practice it's a few thousand lines of code and several month of work to get this far.
While the code is very efficient it does have an n2 problem if you get too many servers.
In practice it's a few thousand lines of code and several month of work to get this far.
While the code is very efficient it does have an n2 problem if you get too many servers.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Load balancing
« on: January 03, 2023, 01:54:31 PM »
Greetings everyone
I'm a little late to this party. Christmas is a busy time for me. I had also not planned on announcing this as I'm still working out a few kinks as well as adding features.
I do have a working sessions sharing, load balanced set up. It's currently designed to work on Amazon's AWS. You can see it running at https://cloud.posal.com. The server group sees over 100,000 requests per day, with pdf reports being in the 100s. It is split between 2-3 servers depending on the time of day.
Login: TryPosal
Password: posal123
As I said I'm still working out some kinks. Individual servers go unhealthy, and need to be restarted more often then I would like. Approximately one a month the whole server group will become unhealthy. I fell like the later is because one of my users is unintentionally DoS me by spamming large requests.
Things I'm still working on, or would like to add:
Better diagnostics and reporting on server health
Automatically changing the group size by more then 1
Changing group size based on load (currently only by schedule)
Creating a new AWS server from an image (currently uses cold spares)
Server requesting that they are temperately removed from the group when handling intensive requests (like multi page reports)
As I'm a contractor and this has taken a lot of work to even get this far I will need to charge for my work. I hadn't decided how much, though anyone helping with the testing phase will get a discount.
If you're interested contact me at https://www.bisware.ca/contact
I'm a little late to this party. Christmas is a busy time for me. I had also not planned on announcing this as I'm still working out a few kinks as well as adding features.
I do have a working sessions sharing, load balanced set up. It's currently designed to work on Amazon's AWS. You can see it running at https://cloud.posal.com. The server group sees over 100,000 requests per day, with pdf reports being in the 100s. It is split between 2-3 servers depending on the time of day.
Login: TryPosal
Password: posal123
As I said I'm still working out some kinks. Individual servers go unhealthy, and need to be restarted more often then I would like. Approximately one a month the whole server group will become unhealthy. I fell like the later is because one of my users is unintentionally DoS me by spamming large requests.
Things I'm still working on, or would like to add:
Better diagnostics and reporting on server health
Automatically changing the group size by more then 1
Changing group size based on load (currently only by schedule)
Creating a new AWS server from an image (currently uses cold spares)
Server requesting that they are temperately removed from the group when handling intensive requests (like multi page reports)
As I'm a contractor and this has taken a lot of work to even get this far I will need to charge for my work. I hadn't decided how much, though anyone helping with the testing phase will get a discount.
If you're interested contact me at https://www.bisware.ca/contact
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The Rest - Ask For Help / Re: NetClient and VMs created from the same image
« on: August 10, 2022, 10:48:13 AM »The NetId is stored in the registry once it is created, and created (using random values) if it is not there. So on the VM you use as the "source" for your clones, you should remove these registry items.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\CapeSoft\NetTalk\GUID
This worked, though I found it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. I'll have to add that to the list of things to check when making a new template.
Thank You Matthew
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The Rest - Ask For Help / Re: NetClient and VMs created from the same image
« on: July 25, 2022, 12:58:34 PM »
Just checking to make sure this didn't get forgotten. Did I explain everything clear enough?
Thank Matthew
Thank Matthew
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The Rest - Ask For Help / NetClient and VMs created from the same image
« on: July 14, 2022, 03:05:28 PM »
NT 12.39
I'm using Amazon web services that disables all notwork broadcasts, even if the VMs are on the same subnet. I get around this by getting a list of IP addresses from the amazon api and calling NetAutoRemote for each of them.
This works fine when I manually create new VM from scratch. However I'd like to create an image of one VM and use that to create others that are already set up and configured. When I try this the NetClients get confused and can't tell each other apart. I tried having amazon change the computer name in windows when a VM is created to give them a unique NetName, but that didn't work. It looks like they are all getting the same NetID. I can't see how the NetID is created as that is happening inside the DLL, so I don't know what if anything I need to change to make the NetIDs unique.
This confusion even crosses Service Names, so I had to create a fire wall between my test VMs and the production ones.
Is their anything I can do to influence the NetID? And is that even the root of my problem?
Thanks
Matthew
I'm using Amazon web services that disables all notwork broadcasts, even if the VMs are on the same subnet. I get around this by getting a list of IP addresses from the amazon api and calling NetAutoRemote for each of them.
This works fine when I manually create new VM from scratch. However I'd like to create an image of one VM and use that to create others that are already set up and configured. When I try this the NetClients get confused and can't tell each other apart. I tried having amazon change the computer name in windows when a VM is created to give them a unique NetName, but that didn't work. It looks like they are all getting the same NetID. I can't see how the NetID is created as that is happening inside the DLL, so I don't know what if anything I need to change to make the NetIDs unique.
This confusion even crosses Service Names, so I had to create a fire wall between my test VMs and the production ones.
Is their anything I can do to influence the NetID? And is that even the root of my problem?
Thanks
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Min height no longer wooks for wizards
« on: January 11, 2022, 04:15:45 PM »
I tried to zip up the whole folder, but the forum wouldn't let me upload it. I tried a 15mb file and 4mb, nether worked.
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: Min height no longer wooks for wizards
« on: January 11, 2022, 04:14:24 PM »
Hi Bruce
I modified example 1 to show off the problem. If you chance Forward Only on tab 2 to yes a large text field will be un-hidden and is overlapping with the buttons. I set the min height to 500 which is more then enough, but the size is still only 222.8 if Forward Only is 'No' then the form is created. I think 12.27 was the version I was on prior and it was working.
Thank you
Matthew
I modified example 1 to show off the problem. If you chance Forward Only on tab 2 to yes a large text field will be un-hidden and is overlapping with the buttons. I set the min height to 500 which is more then enough, but the size is still only 222.8 if Forward Only is 'No' then the form is created. I think 12.27 was the version I was on prior and it was working.
Thank you
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Min height no longer wooks for wizards
« on: January 06, 2022, 03:36:52 PM »
NT 12.33
The min height option looks like it no longer works for wizards. I have a wizard with a min height of 200, but the height gets set to 168.467 and elements are overlapping with the navigation buttons. Presumably this is done by java script. I used the inspector in Firefox to comment out the height and everything worked fine. Could it also be an option to let the browser determine the height?
Thank you
Matthew
The min height option looks like it no longer works for wizards. I have a wizard with a min height of 200, but the height gets set to 168.467 and elements are overlapping with the navigation buttons. Presumably this is done by java script. I used the inspector in Firefox to comment out the height and everything worked fine. Could it also be an option to let the browser determine the height?
Thank you
Matthew
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Web Server - Ask For Help / Re: html textarea in a browse
« on: November 05, 2021, 01:37:15 PM »
Check "Allow xHTML in column" for the column you want. General tab Column subtab.
As for limiting the number of lines, you will have to do that with css. max-height should do the trick.
As for limiting the number of lines, you will have to do that with css. max-height should do the trick.