Status report

Hi! Seems 2011 will be the least productive year of my blogging. There have been many factors affecting this: moving out from a flat, staying at a friends for a month, moving into another flat in another city, half dead notebook.

I participated in a public photo exhibition, anybody could present their work. Mine got not much attention but I expected it. The most admired photos by public were sunsets, HDR and nudes; or the best, all in one! Cliches, what to say. And the most admired photos by the organizators were artistic photoshopped multiexposures. I have to admit they were interesting and enjoyable, ...

In this era of economical collapse, we decided to take a loan and by a flat :S Hope everything will go right. I have a new PC so soon will start posting new pictures.

Have a nice day.

c# .NET HttpWebRequest slow - Expect 100 continue!

Another tech stuff, at least as I am not posting lately. So, we were sending HTTP requestso the server and against a previous (3rd party) version it was extremely slow. Any browsing would suggest to change buffering, async mode or turning off proxy, but none helped.

When we changed POST to GET, this problem dismissed!
When we rewrote using sockets, the problem dismissed, but could not take the risk of an own implementation on a production system.

Profiling showed the bottleneck is this line:

HttpWebResponse r = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

the poll method. Finally the solution was

Expect 100 Continue

Never heard of? :) What a surprise, turn itt off and give it a try. For further explanation search the web for it.

System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false;
or
request.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = false;

Good luck.

Lonely red piano story

Pics from ph-art

Sorry, pics are not displayed, need to figure out how to embed. but if you click, you will be redirected.

Update: Pics should be visible by now, i got it :)