I looked high and low and could not find a satisfactory answer to my problem, which is:
I want to open a website and send it my user id and my password to enter it. I am using a procedure found on StackOverflow that uses CreateProcess and WaitForInputIdle. The problem is that the procedure returns without waiting for the website to fully display, therefore my Id and password end up in the wrong place. Inserting a Sleep(5000) will most of the time work but is not reliable. Can anybody point me in the right direction.
That will never work because WaitForInputIdle returns as soon as the application is waiting for input, but the web browser will not load the web site before that.
You'd have to find another way to do what you want. For example you could create a html form that will post your user id and password to the desired website as soon as it is opened:
How do you force a web browser to use POST when getting a url?
Or host the webbrowser in your application. Then it's in your control and you can send the post by code or be notified when the website has finished loading.
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I have an website build in MVC4 .NET. Now I want to tracking the time user had online in my website. Example: User open browser and then login to my website and active on my website about 30 minutes then close the browser. I want to store 30 minutes to database but I don;t know how to implement it. Please help me because I very need to do it now. Thank you so much
Here is a script that track user login/logout times on a website. It's a simple script that It has used on some of the sites. Also with this script you can see how many users are online at your site.
But the problem is when the user close the browser he do not log out. his session goes to expire
one of the other ways is global action filter that intercepts requests to all actions on all controllers, then you can get the time of each action in the database for the current user and page. To save hitting the database too hard, you could cache these values and invalidate them every few minutes, depending on how much traffic you're dealing with.
UPDATE
about Closing the Browser This is not something that's provided for in the normal web http protocol. There's no real way to know for sure when the browser closes; you can only sort of know. You have to throw together an ugly hack to get any level of certainty and even then it's bound to fail in plenty of edge cases or cause nasty side effects.
The normal work-around is to send ajax requests at intervals from the browser to your server to set up a sort of heartbeat. When the heartbeat stops, the browser closed and so you kill the session. But again: this is a horrible hack. In this case, the main problems are that it's easy to get false positives for a failed heartbeat if the server and client to get out of sync or there's a javascript error, and there's a side effect that your session will never expire on it's own.
I have awebsite, lets just call it search, in one of my browserpages open. search has a form, which when submitted runs queries on a database to which I don't have direct access. The problem with search is that the interface is rather horrible (one cannot save the aforementioned queries etc.)
I've analyzed the request (with a proxy) which is send to the server via search and I am able to replicate it. The server even sends back the correct result, but the browser is not able to open it. (Same origin policy). Do you have any ideas on how I could tackle this problem?
The answer to your question is: you can't. At least not without using a proxy as suggested in the answer by Walter, and that would mean your web site visitors would have to knowingly login to your web site using their other web site's credentials (hmm doesn't sound good...)
The reason you can't do this is related to security, if you could run a script on the tab next to the one with the site open (which is what I'm guessing you want to do), you would be able to do a CSRF attack and get any data you wish and send it to hack.com
This is, of course, assuming that there has to be a login somewhere in the process, otherwise there's no reason for you to not be able to create a simple form which posts the required query and gets the info.
If you did have access to the mentioned website, you would be able to support cross domain xml using JSONP.
It is not possible to bypass the same origin policy in javascript (assuming that you want to do it with that considering your question). You need to set up a proxy server side that is doing the request for you and returns the html.
A simple way of doing this in PHP would be like this:
<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://searchdomainname.com" . "?" . http_build_query($_GET, '', '&'));
?>
How do I play a track from a SoundCloud URL, which, for example, I got from the xml response from a query
<stream-url>https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31164607/stream</stream-url>
I should have thought that it would have been as easy as:
https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31164607/stream&client_id=my_client_id
yet I get
<error>401 - Unauthorized</error>
All I want to do is consume it in a Silverlight MediaElement, so all I need is set some url to the MediaElement's Source property.
I've checked an application that I wrote about 2 years ago, and THEN, accessing the stream url was as easy as this for a public track:
http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/18163056/stream&consumer_key=MY_CONSUMER_KEY
however this no longer seems to work.
For example, all I had to do then in C# was:
MediaElement me = new MediaElement();
me.Source= new Url("http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/18163056/stream&consumer_key=MY_CONSUMER_KEY");
me.Play();
Any hints would be appreciated.
I had a reply on a Microsoft forum that seems to imply that SoundCloud might not be possible to stream to Windows 8 Metro devices without consuming the whole stream before playback starts - which is quite worrying and would seem to imply that to make authentication possible, it would have to be done entirely in the url querystring insterad of using the header:
(The following reply is the answer to the following question: 'I am able to access an audio stream by http using the MediaElement, however I need to access it via https in which I need to add the oAuth info to the header of the initial request.
How is this done when using a MediaElement, and if it cannot be done, what is the workaround for consuming an audio feed in Metro 8 that requires header authentication to stream?')
"Direct access to the underlying network stream is not currently permitted by the MediaElement. Because of this there is currently no way to modify the header of the HTTP request to include any additional authentication information. That said, you do have control over the URL. You could theoretically setup an HTTP proxy service that translated the HTTP GET request parameters into the necessary oAuth credentials. Keep in mind that this is just a theoretical workaround. You may find different behavior in practice. Another theoretical workaround would be to handle the oAuth yourself via a raw stream socket and pass the retuned media data to the MediaElement via "Set Source" and a "Random Access Stream". Please keep in mind that this method has major limitations. in order to use a "Random Access Stream" with the ME you need to make sure all of the data is available before passing it to the ME."
The proxy service is not scalable for an application that is merely distributed for free as every stream would need to come via the proxy. And the raw stream socket, although getting around this, would mean that playback could not start until the whole file had downloaded - and this goes against all current UX (User Experience) guidelines.
So once again, if anyone has any tips, or info about how the whole authentication thing can be achieved in a querystring instead of using headers, I'd appreciate it!
I'm a little confused about whether you're referring to a public or a private track? If it's a public track, then you shouldn't need to send any authentication information, just your client id.
When I request https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/31164607/stream?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID then I get a 302 redirect to the proper mp3 stream.
Remember, adding parameters to a URL must start with a ? not &. This could (more than likely) be the reason why you are getting a 401 (SC is not picking up the client_id).
After authentication the link like this
http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/103229681/stream?consumer_key=d61f17a08f86bfb1dea28539908bc9bf
is working fine. I am using Action Script.
I'm following up on Tom's reply because he calls attention to url character specificity. My HTTP requests randomly started failing today, and I was prefacing my client_Id with a ?. As soon as I changed that single ? to &, it started working. So in my case, SC wasn't picking up my client_Id because I used the wrong character. I think depending on where in the request we're talking about specifically, it's worth noting that differences between ? and & do make a difference.
Is there a way to tell if a user on my website has left (i.e. connection dropped, navigated away etc.) in real time?
I am building a RoR website and want to initiate an event as soon as a user leaves my site for whatever reason (e.g. connection, navigating away from domain etc.)
Thanks in advance for any help.
No, there isn't.
The best you can do is send an AJAX request every X seconds (perhaps only if the user moves the mouse). If the server doesn't receive any requests for 2X seconds, assume that the user left.
Nope.
Http = connectionless
You can do some request in this function:
$(window).bind('beforeunload', function(){
// there
});
Send some Ajax or something to tell the server that this user is leaving the page, but this is not a good idea. In Google analytics and in other statistic services you already can see how long the user stays in your page.
All I can think of is JavaScript onunload event in your body tag... I don't know how viable that is, but in theory you could have that use an AJAX call to send information about an impending disconnect.
Of course, if the browser process is just killed that won't work.
And I'm not sure if Rails has any unique magic that does this same thing (except better).
is it possible to submit forms with yahoo pipes?
i basically need to log in somewhere, and get some stuff from the members area of a website into a feed.
Although this is not exactly programming related... I guess it is close enough.
No, logging into somewhere is impossible with Yahoo Pipes. Sending the username/password isn't even the only problem here.
The real problem is that most, if not all, web sites that require a log-in depend on a session cookie or something similar. Yahoo pipes can do a GET request, and that's about it. Even if it was possible to send your user name/password in the URL, you would not be able to use the session cookie, so subsequent requests would fail.
So... If you have access to a hosted web site somewhere: Write a small proxy script (in PHP or whatever is available) that does the login and fetches the data. Let Yahoo pipes read from your proxy page. But if you are that far, you can just as well produce RSS format right away. ;-)
I did a pipe that can log in and extract info. is working ok on a simple web form using POST.