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ASP.NET MVC custom ActionResult (ImageResult)

Tue, 13 May 2008 13:33:03 GMT

The ASP.NET MVC framework introduces the concept of returning an ActionResult in Controllers since the "preview preview" release on CodePlex. The purpose of this concept is to return a generic ActionResult object for each Controller method, allowing different child classes returning different results. In this blog post, I will build a custom ActionResult class which will render an image to the HTTP response stream.

Localhost HTTP debugging with Fiddler

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:01:02 GMT

I have been a huge fan of Fiddler the HTTP Debugging Proxy for a couple years now. However one thing that always bugged me about any network debugging tool was the fact that it could debug localhost or 127.0.0.1. However I just found a solution while racking my brain for a way to debug one of my local projects.

World Of HTTP/1.1 Status Codes

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:01:04 GMT

Most developers are familiar with the HTTP 1.0 Status Codes, that have been recently popularized by the SEO guys. We have all heard that you should use 301 Moved Permanently instead of 302 Temporary Redirect. What many of the SEO guys won't tell you, because they don't know any better, is that they are using the RFC 1945 HTTP/1.0 Standard that was released in May 1996, that is right it is about 12 years old. The newest HTTP/1.1 Standard, RFC 2616, was released in June 1999, and made some pretty drastic changes the the 3xx Redirect Status Codes. The goal of this post is to inform and familiarize developers with the HTTP/1.1 Standard, specifically the 3xx Redirect Status Code changes. This can have drastic effect on how you handle requests on your website and optimize your site for search engines.

WAKA - A little REST and Relaxation in November?

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:51:56 GMT

If there's one reason to go to ApacheCon 07 in Atlanta, then it's probably Roy T. Fielding's "a little REST and Relaxation" While there isn't a whole lot of information available on WAKA (that replacement for HTTP Roy mentions in the end of the abstract). Belwo are a few links I managed to find..

Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:20:30 GMT

To redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with ISAPI Rewrite you can use the following rewriting rules in your httpd.ini file ...

I'm all Zipped Up

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:01:02 GMT

Decrease your website's bandwidth requirements by turning on HTTP Compression on your IIS 6.0 web server.

Keep the content-type in sync

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:46:01 GMT

This method will add a meta-tag that specifies the same content-type as the HTTP header does. That way you just have to change the encoding in the web.config and it will automatically change the meta-tag accordingly.

Get the HTTP status code from a URL

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:01:01 GMT

By using this simple method it is very easy to build your own web server checking tool.