Suddenly I feel proud to be a British Citizen… are you ready? Good: HMRC (the lovely people who take our tax off us) provide a fully documented API, see here, for filling in just about every form they have. Not only that, but they define a whole set of schemas and everything available here: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govtalk/schemasstandards.aspx … Read more
The main impact in speed of SOAP vs. REST has not to do with wire speed, but with cachability. REST suggests using the web’s semantics instead of trying to tunnel over it via XML, so RESTful web services are generally designed to correctly use cache headers, so they work well with the web’s standard infrastructure … Read more
Differences? SOAP is more powerful, and is much preferred by software tool vendors (MSFT .NET, Java Enterprise edition, that sort of things). SOAP was for a long time (2001-2007ish) seen as the protocol of choice for SOA. xml-rpc not so much. REST is the new SOA darling, although it’s not a protocol. SOAP is more … Read more
Most answers given here have a huge disadvantage: if the string you are trying to convert isn’t trusted then you will end up with a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. For the function in the accepted answer, consider the following: htmlDecode(“<img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3700326/dummy” onerror=”alert(/xss/)”>”); The string here contains an unescaped HTML tag, so instead of decoding anything … Read more
Most answers given here have a huge disadvantage: if the string you are trying to convert isn’t trusted then you will end up with a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability. For the function in the accepted answer, consider the following: htmlDecode(“<img src=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1912501/dummy” onerror=”alert(/xss/)”>”); The string here contains an unescaped HTML tag, so instead of decoding anything … Read more
Changing the memory_limit by ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘-1′); is not a proper solution. Please don’t do that. Your PHP code may have a memory leak somewhere and you are telling the server to just use all the memory that it wants. You wouldn’t have fixed the problem at all. If you monitor your server, you will see … Read more