Posts related to: Web Connection
Web Connection 8.5 Release Post
It's been a bit since the last Web Connection release, and this update while a maintenance release, has quite a few updates and small enhancements. There are update to the CORS template, Error Handling on the server, a number of HTTP and FTP fixes and tweaks in the client framework and we've significantly updated the Docs and Blog sites.
What is CORS and how to set it up in West Wind Web Connection
If you're building REST Services that is called from a Web Browser using Http client calls via fetch() or XMLHttpRequest and that calls a domain or sub-domain other than the hosting page, you need to make sure your server implements the CORS protocol, or client requests will fail. In this post I describe the basics of CORS and how you can easily implement it Web Connection.
Web Connection 8.4 Release Post
Time again for a small update to West Wind Web Connection. This release is primarily a bug fix release so it's highly recommended that you update to this latest 8.x version as soon as possible.
Web Connection 8.1 Release Post
Web Connection 8.1 is out. This is a small maintenance release, but it does include a few significant updates.
West Wind Web Connection 8.0 Release Notes
Web Connection 8.0 is here and this is the official release post for this new version.
Web Connection 7.35 released
Web Connection 7.35 is out. This is a maintenance release but there are a handful of new features and improvements, with the key feature being a new REST Service Authentication scheme that integrates wwSession and wwUserSecurity for Bearer Token authentication.
Web Connection 7.32 released
Web Connection 7.32 is out and it's a small maintenence update. In this post I go over some of the small feature updates and fixes and describe them in more detail.
Delaying or Waiting on Code in Web Connection Applications
Sometimes it's necesasry to wait for an external operation to complete, and when using Web Connection you have to be careful to do the right thing to avoid running into problems with user interface operations that might fail in COM mode. In this post I talk about different types of wait operations that you can use safely and how you should really try hard to minimize wait operations in your applications.
Web Connection 7.26 has been released
Web Connection 7.26 is out and in this post I'll go over some of the new features in a little more detail.
Building and Consuming REST API Services with FoxPro
REST API Services are no longer a novelty, but have become the standard way for organizations to publishing services for remote access. Whether it's public APIs both free and commercial, as well as SPA apps that use internal APIs for a backend, REST's simplicity and loose suggestions has won out of more complex service architectures of the past. In this article from Virtual FoxFest 2021 I talk about how you can access REST services from FoxPro and how to create REST services using FoxPro and…
Updating Launch.prg to Latest Version in Web Connection
One of the nice improvements in recent Web Connection projects is the new launch command which makes it drop dead easy to start your Web Connection applications by launching Web Server, FoxPro application and browser all in one quick step. If you have an older version of Web Connection, or need to updated an earlier version of launch.prg to the latest version, here are some tips on how you can easily create a new launch.prg specific for your existing application.
Should we add Bootstrap 5.0 Support to Web Connection?
Bootstrap 5 has been out for a while now and it was time to take it for a spin on the West Wind Message board application to see what's required to upgrade a Web Connection application to use Bootstrap 5. Here is review, some thoughts and some of my update notes.
West Wind Web Connection 7.20 has been released
Web Connection 7.20 is here. This is a maintenance release but it also features a number of new and updated features including support for Web Sockets, consolidated Administration UI, a new OnRouting() handler and a bunch of updates to core components.
Workflow for using wwDotnetBridge to call .NET Components
In this post I'll describe the common workflow I use when I use wwDotnetBridge to check out the .NET code I'm trying to call first in .NET before actually starting to create the FoxPro code. This helps in discovering the features available on the libraries I'm trying to call, but it also validates that I'm using the .NET code directly before I start adding that extra layer of FoxPro abstraction on top of it.
Web Connection 7.15 Release Notes
Web Connection 7.15 is here and it provides a few small enhancements as well as improved log format configuration, an updated Request Viewer that makes it easier to examine the last few requests, a few Cookie updates and a wwJsonSerializer bug fix.