If you're concerned about keeping critical information in your Web.config file, then you should encrypt it -- or at least the parts that you're concerned about. I love keeping information in my ...

Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

SPI Dynamics – These days, the biggest threat to an organization’s network security comes from its public Web site and the Web-based applications found there. Unlike internal-only network services ...

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Tweaking the settings in your configuration files in ASP.Net can provide a nice performance boost. These files include machine.config and web.config. The web.config file is application-specific and is ...

Apache is the most popular Web server and one of the most successful open-source projects of all time. Since April 1996, Apache has served more Web sites than any other Web server. Many of the world's ...

Java 18's Simple Web Server lets you use a command-line tool or API to host files and more. Here's how it works. One of the handiest new features included in the Java 18 release (March 2022) was the ...