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Is bytes as request parameters as rest endpoint a security risk?
I am working on an application where user can send in an absolute path of an image or URL as string in API endpoint. My code is able to handle that.
Now I have been asked to add the code which can ...
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Best approach for developing a stateful computation-heavy application with a rest-api interface using python?
I want to develop an end-to-end machine learning application where data will be in GPU-memory and computations will run on the GPU. A stateless RESTfull service with a database is not desirable since ...
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Is Python's Django WebFramework good to design Expert System as a Web App?
I hope everyone is good. Well, I am at the end of my degree BS (Software Engineering), and in the third Phase of my Final Year Project named as 'Test Phase'.
My Project is to build an Expert System ...
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Access control to Django App running on private server
I am a self-learning programmer (with a fair share of python knowledge), and currently a company asked to develop a simple application so that they can track employee expenses (and I thought of using ...
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Combining web app and CLI to python package
I'm writing a program in Python that has two different entry points. There's a CLI that processes some data and needs to be installed to run hourly on a server, this populates a database. There's also ...
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Pandas based visual data cleaning tool
I am looking to build an web-application which would allow user to upload csv file - see preview of few rows in the file and then apply different cleansing and standardisation rules.
For example the ...
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Should I access the backend directly or through an API layer?
Please allow me to ask my question using an example where we have a database with flight data and I want to make a web app where users can search, select, and book a flight.
I wrote some classes ...
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Best practices for calling multiple APIs and manipulating data before showing it to user?
I am building a web application that makes use of multiple API's (Google Maps, Weather APIs, and more). I am using Python + Flask on the backend, and Javascript (probably with React, I have not ...
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OOP Design Choices in a Web App
I am about to start coding for a school project that requires me to demonstrate good OO practices in a web app. Now, I have built a few web apps and have never felt the need to define my own classes ...
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Advice needed on approach to log raw request/response body from APIs
I need some advice on an approach to log raw request/response data from a few webapps, for all operations and hits on all APIS accessed via HTTP methods (mostly HTTP POSTs), that I have hosted.
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Commercial usage of AGPLv3 python web framework
There's shuup django based e-commerce web-framework which is licensed AGPL-3.0
I would like to use it in my commercial project, which ultimately means that I'll want to modify a thing or two in the ...
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Can I use Python with JavaScript as a UI?
First of all I am not a professional programmer, but a student with a programming hobby so I am sorry if my question is stupid.
I want to write a chess engine to be used on the web and had already ...
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Developing an app using Django. Do I design front-end after app? Or develop Django to fit UI? [duplicate]
Edit: this differs from a similar question because I'm interested specifically in how Django works with the front-end. I.e. what is considered best practice when developing using the Django framework.
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Hard time understanding structure of web apps w JS frameworks? [closed]
I'm having a difficult time understanding how web applications work. Please help me understand without giving me google definitions. Baby steps/words would be appreciated =) From what I understand so ...
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Structuring a Python Project: Need some guidance
I currently am working on a project that involves several discrete components that have some common functionality, and I am in need of some advice.
Right now I have a central component responsible ...
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What's special about “non-blocking” node.js?
In the short chapter, What is Node by McLaughlin, he writes:
"Node has no blocks, no threads competing for the same resource (Node
is happy to just let things happen however they happen), nothing ...
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How do different technologies connect to form a web stack? [closed]
I am a little confused, is it possible to implement a front end using common languages like html, css and javascript and then do server side processing using a language of your choice, say python or ...
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Why can python webapps keep sessions between restart and not java?
I've used both webapp2 + GAE for python and a number of Java/JEE webapp frameworks. The python WSGI framework could keep users logged in while I redeploy the app while none of the Java web framework ...
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Google App Engine overview
I have gone through many Google App Engine tutorials, and I became quite familiar with how to do basic stuff like implementing a webapp2.RequestHandler, and using ndb.Models to manage your data.
Now, ...
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Python garbage collection giving me a hard time
Context: I am developing a web application using webapp2 web-framework with python to be hosted on GAE.
The web application (web-app from now on), is a chess variant. Being a first timer, I have ...
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Web application / Domain model integration using JSON capable DTOs
I'm a bit confused about architectural choices for the web-applications/java/python world. For c/c++ world the available (open source) choices to implement web applications is pretty limited to zero, ...
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Browser-based GUI for a python application [closed]
I want to create a web/browser-based GUI for a command-line python application. The goal is to make use of HTML/JS technologies to create this GUI. As the application itself, it needs to run on Linux ...
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Multiple sites with the same codebase in Python
I am trying to run a large amount of sites which share about 90% of their code. They are simply designed to query an API and return the results. They will have a common userbase / database but will be ...
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Should I use webKit or is there a better technology to make a browser in Windows [closed]
I create web applications most in RoR and PHP. About a year ago a company wanted to use my app but in a stand alone browser window in Linux, so I wrote one in python using webkit, locked it down to ...
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Python web application frontend for equipment diagnostics and interaction
My goal is to have a Python application that runs a web server which hosts the user interface, and based on interactions from a user in their browser, long running tasks get kicked off and through ...
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caching on multiple servers
Because we need to keep response times low, we get tons of requests, and we need to basically process ALMOST the same data (which I'll refer to as X) each request (the inputs are different though, so ...
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Python in Big Data?
Can python be efficiently implemented in big data field? To be precise I am building an web app that analyses really big data in medical health care field consisting of medical history and huge ...
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Do I have to learn html and javascript to create web applications? [closed]
I am an experienced Java programmer, and I want to create a complex web application requiring dynamic pages, drawings, etc (take SO as an example). Do I have to learn javascript/html in order to ...
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Which web framework to use under Backbonejs? [closed]
For a previous project, I was using Backbonejs alongside Django, but I found out that I didn't use many features from Django. So, I am looking for a lighter framework to use underneath a Backbonejs ...
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Is it worth converting a Django project to Rails?
I have a project I shelved a while back- it was essentially a working web app built in django but I stopped working on it to work on something else.
I plan on starting it up again in my spare time, ...
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Flexible cloud file storage for a web.py app?
I'm creating a web app using web.py (although I may later rewrite it for Tornado) which involves a lot of file manipulation. One example, the app will have a git-style 'commit' operation, in which ...
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Handling and organizing data from save file?
I'm working on a webapp (python/javascript) to modify a game's save file. The file has certain bytes representing player information, such as the gun, the equipment, etc. The idea is to show an ...
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how to choose a web framework and javascript library? [closed]
I've been procrastinating learning some framework for web apps w/ some library for AJAX, something like django with prototype, or turbogears with mootools, or zeta components with dojo, grok, jquery, ...
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Path forward into making Python web applications
I currently know a working knowledge of Python and some related libraries (including the included-with-Python SQLite) for the purpose of making desktop applications.
I would now like to start to make ...
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How do I encrypt the source code on the webserver?
I have a web application developed using Python, HTML, CSS & JavaScript.
The customer installs it in any of their own Machine and uses it through their LAN.
In short the customer sets up the ...
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Can I create a desktop Python GUI application and run it as a web app?
I'm working on a project where multiple (several hundred perhaps) users will need to run an application remotely. We thought that running a web app would be the best course of action to go. (Note: ...
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How does Python work?
This question may seems a little bit silly, but what the heck.
I started to learn Python. I know basic syntax, etc.
When I work with HTML, PHP, etc., I simply write code, put it inside .html or ....
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Is there any way to use Python to replace Flash for in browser animation, gaming, whatever? [closed]
Is there any way to use Python to replace Flash for in browser animation, gaming, webapps, whatever? Pretty straight-forward IMHO. Does anyone know how to do this?
