Tag: Cloud Storage
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Automating Archived Webinar Downloads: Reverse-Engineering a Portal’s Hidden API
We needed to pull years of archived webinar recordings out of an enterprise webinar platform and drop them into cloud storage. It sounds like a simple “download all” job. It wasn’t — and the reasons why make for a nice tour through session capture, CSRF tokens, on-demand file generation, and a live progress dashboard. 1.…
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How to read an NSArray from a URL without blocking the app
Developing applications that display data from the network often presents a challenge: how to read data from an external file. Parsing XML in Objective-C is quite resource-intensive, so it’s worth considering whether a simpler solution might be to create a .plist file (Property list) on the server and download that file format to the application.…