i'm using Microsoft's SqmApi.dll library to add telemetry to an application. e.g.:
ISQM sqm = new Sqm("ContosoGrobber");
sqm.Increment(FileOpen, 1);
sqm.SetIfMax(QueryTime, stopWatch.Interval);
...
sqm.CloseSession(System.IO.Path.GetTempPath());
And now i have a .sqm file ready for me to WebRequest back to my web-server:
Now all i need is a way to crack open the guts inside the file:
ContosoGrobber00.sqm:
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Has anyone figured out the undocumented internal format used by every Microsoft product created in the last 8 years?
It's obviously not Base64 encoded, so presumably compressed.
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for privacy reasons Microsoft doesn’t share any details in public about the SQM file format. The SQM file basically contains header data and Datapoints.
Perhaps it's some kind of MS standard serialization of the wire protocol? The MS-SQMCS client-server protocol doc notes that the header begins with 0x4D51534D (hex for MSQM).
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Our site uses a content security policy with Braintree's implementation of 3D Secure.
There are multiple calls made by songbird.js (CardinalCommerce implementation of 3D Secure used by Braintree) to third party sites (such as kg668dbov0.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, touchtechpayments.com, or arcot.com) which are not documented in the CSP requirements outlined by Braintree here https://braintree.github.io/braintree-web/current/.
These calls to third party sites don't seem to be documented anywhere on the web either, and seem to change at random. Every time there is an undocumented change it breaks our 3DS integration (iFrame doesn't load as the undocumented url is blocked by the CSP).
The urls seem to vary based on the card used (touchtechpayments.com seems to be the Revolut one, arcot.com seems to be HSBC), and I can see a couple others for French banks in our CSP violation report: https://bred.wlp-acs.com for Bred, https://bnpp-3ds.wlp-acs.com for BNP Paribas).
Does anyone know where I can find an up to date list of the content security policy requirements for songbird.js ?
I've created an issue on the braintree github page:
https://github.com/braintree/braintree-web/issues/497
My list so far:
3ds-secure.cardcomplete.com
ecclients.btrl.ro
bofp.erstebank.hu
www.clicksafe.lloydstsb.com
pay.activa-card.com
3dsecure-1.wirecard.com
3dsecure-2.wirecard.com
acssv.otpbank.hu
acs.sia.eu
idcheck.acs.touchtechpayments.com
sicher-bezahlen.sparkasse.at
secure5.arcot.com
We know ANSI is the one of the standard and format for transfer the financial and billing information between organisation, in our terms application, ie integration purpose, while developing the ANSI format integrations we need some message format validator software that could be helpful to identify the segments required fields and match the segments and values between templates and actual message that we are constructing.
I have one validator for HL7 message like 7edit, like this do we have any ANSI message validator that will integrate all like ANSI, UB04 message elements.
Thanks in advance.
Your best bet might be to use open-source Java libraries and create a small app yourself.
Here are some libraries:
EDIReader http://berryworkssoftware.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27
BOTS http://bots.sourceforge.net/en/index.shtml
SMOOKS http://www.smooks.org/
After some searching, I haven't been able to find a definite answer.
If I am given a zip code like 11111, it is technically a valid zip code but it doesn't exist. Is there a way to check this? The same goes for a postal code like a1a a1a (valid but not real).
For United States zipcodes:
You can purchase / download databases of zip codes, which you can use in your local app.
Google for
us zip code database
Here is one that you can use for free for non-commercial purposes (for commercial purposes you can purchase a cheap license):
http://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/zip-code-database/
There are some providers which allow you to perform remote HTTP calls, search around
For any who stumble onto this and are using Python, this exists: https://github.com/Brobin/usps-api
It doesn't cover all the API functionality, but it makes the standard stuff much easier than constructing XML by hand.
I have written a custom crawler to index all the data from the connections seedlists
https:///forums/seedlist/myserver
When we started utilizing subcommunities, I double checked to make sure subcommunities behave practically the same as communities. They seem to, they have all the same properties in the Connections DB, just subs have a parent uuid. Got it.
I expected my crawler to find the sub communities discussions (basically just iterating through the atom feed with a Java XML parser) and pulling out the relevant information. Are subcommunities not published to this seedlist? If not, there does not seem to be a subcommunity specific seedlist.
We are currently on Connections 4.5
Thank you.
I have found the answer here.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/appdevwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+Connections+4.5+API+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Community_entry_content_ic45&content=pdcontent
There seems to be an additional element that links to the sub-community feed from within the community. A crawler will need to send a GET request to that link.
I'm working with some legacy exchange code and I am having trouble finding information about some methods/constants. A google search reveals others using similar code, but with no explanations. Does anyone have any ideas where I can find proper docs? One constant I am looking for is: SYNC_ASSOCIATED.
Exchange is a Microsoft protocol, so the best place to look is usually MSDN.
The MSDN library, however, seems curiously lacking on Exchange documentation, but an MSDN search looks in a few other places too.
In this case, it's led me to this blog post which gives you a number of constants as they would be defined in a C header file. SYNC_ASSOCIATED is defined as 0x10.
This is part of ICS, Exchange's mechanism for monitoring and tracking changes in a mailbox. See the ICS section of the bulk data transfer protocol spec.