We’ve all encoutered reCAPTCHA, as it’s one of the few effective ways to protect form submissions from bots on the internet.
Acquired by google in 2009, it comes with multiple plugins for various web environment, here is a plugin for DWScript.
As Google Code no longer allows downloads, I will incrementally relocate the DWScript downloads on this website.
The first of the new downloads is an updated binary installer for the DWS Web Server.
Here is a small snippet to illustrate how you can perform a conditional HTTP 301 redirection in DWScript, and can serve as an illustration on serving “special” HTTP responses.
This is useful when a website is moved from one domain to another, but the server is not, ie. if both old and new domains are hosted by the same server.
An utility that was added to the DWScript sample WebServer during the 4 TeraPixel Mandelbrot experiment is the BackgroundWorkers API.
This is a rather low-level threading facility that can work well with Global Queues to handle background tasks or serializing tasks.
There is now an embryo of standard cryptography support for DWScript through the dwsCryptoLib module. The implementations are currently based on