LibCurl supports URL transfer over HTTPS protocol. In this post we’ll use LibCurl to download a webpage over HTTPS protocol. To get started, make sure that you have setup your system as outlined in one of my previous posts. Note that LibCurl comes with SSL libraries included and hence you need not to install any extra packages.

Getting started

Let’s first try to download a HTTPS webpage without SSL using following code:

Grunt is a task runner powered by Node.JS. It can be used to automate day to day mundane tasks. Being a Node.JS module, you can define tasks in good old JavaScript. Grunt has plenty of plugins available for different type of tasks. In this post I’ll walk you through the process of automating GIT work-flow using grunt-git. So let’s get started.

Setup / Installation

Grunt 0.4.x requires Node.JS version >= 0.8.0 and hence make sure you download and install the same.

I work in an environment where I constantly need to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit version of Oracle client. Manually editing the environment variable ORACLE_HOME becomes really annoying after some time. Hence I created a small batch file to toggle the ORACLE_HOME:

Last week I came across following SQL statement:

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DELETE
FROM FIRST_TABLE A
WHERE A.KEY1 = '1'
  AND EXISTS
    (SELECT 'X'
     FROM SECOND_TABLE B
     WHERE B.KEY1 = A.KEY1
       AND B.KEY2 = A.KEY2);

This SQL statement was running fine in Oracle but was failing in Microsoft SQL Server (MSS) with followiing error:

Suppose you want to get the parameters of an URL like below in JavaScript

http://example.com?param1=value1&param2=value2

Below JavaScript code might come handy in this case