Using a random string to authenticate HMAC?

I am designing a simple webservice and want to use HMAC for authentication to the service.

Execute code every hour [closed]

Closed 8 years ago.

MVC or Extract Service Layer

we have an application that is built with .Net MVC. We are now tasked with exposing API’s to third parties. Members on our team want to just continue down our current path and just use more controllers so we can reuse the backend of our current application. Logic tells me we need to create a seperate service layer when more clients are going to be accessing it, but .Net MVC seems to take care of all of this. Is it really acceptable architecture to use controllers in a stand alone application to expose API’s and what would be the potential gains of extracting the service layer out?

Free cloud web service development [closed]

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Suggestions for connecting .NET WPF GUI with Java SE Server

BACKGROUND
We are building a Java (SE) trading application which will be monitoring market data and sending trade messages based on the market data, and also on user defined configuration parameters.

What is the difference between SOAP and Web Services?

Keep getting confused about these two. Anyone care to explain the difference(s)?

What is the origin of the phrase “SaaS”?

Recently I heard someone say they built a “SaaS” application. At first I thought “this guy knows something new”, and I figured SaaS was some hyped enterprise framework or design pattern, but after looking up the SaaS Wikipedia page I realized it’s similar in meaning to “web app”.

Thin client Web browser?

Many times i have heard people saying that a particular hardware to be running a thin client web browser. But from the definition of “thin-client”, doesnt all browser qualify as a thin-client? as all they do is rendering the information sent from a remote server minimizing the work at the browser end?

One codebase – lots of hosted services (similar to a basecamp style service) – planning structure

We have built a service (PHP Based) for a client, and are now looking to offer it to other clients as a hosted service. For this example, think of it like a hosted forum service, where a client signs up on our site, and is given a subdomain or can use their own domain, and the code picks up the domain, checks it against a ‘master’ users table, and then loads the content as needed.

Sending files via HTTP to web service

I am bit frustrated at the lack of information about this online. Here is the issue: