Category Archives: Protocol

Introduction to Ext.Direct

Evan Trimboli of the Ext-JS team just published an article describing Ext.Direct, a remoting API that is part of Ext 3.0. Continue reading →

Force a URL to Use HTTPS

Site owners sometimes need to make sure secure connections are used. They can do this quickly with this Apache rule. Continue reading →

BlazeDS: Flex Data Services Goes Open-Source

So far the standard way of making data connections in Ajax applications has been over XmlHttpRequest, which requires clients to constantly poll backend servers. Adobe is taking advantage of the opportunity to open up a solid platform capable of providing … Continue reading →

HTTP Streaming and Internet Explorer

According to Michael Carter, of Comet Daily, evidence of a surefire way to use Comet with IE is purely anecdotal. He describes the steps he followed to uncover the cause of dropped connections in his ActiveX htmlfile hack and how … Continue reading →

From DHTML to DOM Scripting

Here is a good article by Chris Heilmann for those of you making a move to new JavaScript coding styles and frameworks.

Excellent Addition to Prototype.js

$E() is for those of us who use the prototype framework, and have written additional functions to manage new elements and their contents.

CFHTTP Trouble: Connecting to Web Services that Use GZip Compression

Rob Gonda posted this today, which I had also experienced while attempting to connect to the Yahoo! Maps API. The solution in my case was to add charset=”utf-8″ to the cfhttp call.