What I'm trying to do here is get the headers of a given URL so I can determine the MIME type. I want to be able to see if http://somedomain/foo/ will return an HTML document or a JPEG image for example. Thus, I need to figure out how to send a HEAD request so that I can read the MIME type without...

I'm running into a small problem at the end of the Getting Started guide for vagrant . I'm working on a CentOS basebox that has Apache2 running (provisioning via Puppet). I've set up port forwarding for web requests using the following line in Vagrantfile : ...

When I debug in Visual Studio, Firefox opens and that is annoying because of the hookups that Internet Explorer and Visual Studio have, such as when you close the Internet Explorer browser that starting debug opened, Visual Studio stops debugging. How can I get Visual Studio to open Internet Explor...

I want to use a Spinner that initially (when the user has not made a selection yet) displays the text "Select One". When the user clicks the spinner, the list of items is displayed and the user selects one of the options. After the user has made a selection, the selected item is displayed in the Spi...

I have a command line script that I run with a lot of arguments. I have now come to a point where I have too many arguments, and I want to have some arguments in dictionary form too. ...

I'm trying to write (what I thought would be) a simple bash script that will: 3 Answers ...

I need to get a line count of a large file (hundreds of thousands of lines) in python. What is the most efficient way both memory- and time-wise? ...

This question on ' How to tell if a PHP array is empty ' had me thinking of this question 12 Answers ...

Sorry about the length, it's kinda necessary. 6 Answers 6 ...

I'd love some some help handling a strange edge case with a paginated API I'm building. 11 Answers ...