Dec. 3, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 4.0, a major update to its fast, elegant Markdown editor. Designed to stay out of your way,...
Nov. 19, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released WebSurge version 3.0.3. WebSurge makes it easy to create and test HTTP and REST APIs or any Http content. Test...
Aug. 6, 2025
CORS is a necessary protocol for REST API services when making cross-origin calls between different domains using Web browser clients. CORS is a...
Jul. 22, 2025
Web Connection is a rich and mature tool for building HTML Web applications and HTTP REST API Services using Visual FoxPro. You can continue to use...
Jun. 11, 2025
West Wind Technologies has released Markdown Monster 3.6 of its rich Markdown editor. Markdown Monster makes it easy to create Markdown content with...
April 20, 2015
Web Connection has included plUpload support for a while, but it uses the hefty plUpload Queue component which provides a rich UI. If your needs are simpler, you can also use the raw programmatic plUpload API directly to handle uploads. In this post I show how the new image uploader on the West Wind Message Board is implemented using the raw plUpload base client API and Web Connection's plUploadHandler.
April 02, 2015
When trying to access Web Connection served JSON data from mobile device applications or from Web applications hosted on other domains you might have found that you run into Cross-site access restrictions of the XHR calls that don't allow the cross site calls. Luckily there's an easy work around using the CORS protocol that allows your server to specify which domains it allows to access your content.