DWScript news and sneak peek
Below is a quick summary of changes in the SVN since the last post.
There is also a mini-sneak peek of things to come!
DWScript happenings and new logo
Long time, no post here, but not no happenings on the DWScript front 🙂
Behold a “cleaned up old logo” for DWScript, which will replace the old one until a better one is made
New DWS WebServer release
A new pre-compiled release v2014.04.04 for the DWS WebServer is available from the downloads page, it is compiled from the latest source.
Besides the usual demo sites, it has been used to serve a crypto-currency block-chain explorer website that peaked at 1600 page views / hour after some successful tweets went viral.
Using reCAPTCHA in DWS WebServer
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.
Cryptographic Library for DWScript
There is now an embryo of standard cryptography support for DWScript through the dwsCryptoLib module. The implementations are currently based on DWScript binaries and downloads
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.
HTTP Redirection in DWSWebServer
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.
BackgroundWorkers in DWScript
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.
DataBasePool in DWScript
A recent addition to dwsDataBase is the DataBasePool static class.
As the names indicates, it facilitates pooling database connections from the script-side, while previously you had to rely on Delphi or driver-side pooling (or lack of).
