February, 2007
nikto – test your apache for security holes
A neat tool to scan you apache server for “some” (more than 3.000) known security problems including general configuration problems (directory indexing) and wide spread scripts vulnerabilities. Remember to verify each problem reported though! Visit the Homepage for further information.
Where to start mysql performance tuning?
I recently found a great article on mysql performance blog giving you a short and precise description of what to tune in the first place. This is a must!
wordpress-mu strips any unknown html entity
After migrating from wordpress 2.1 to wordpress-mu 1.0 I was not able to write source code like XML inside <code> tags. I searched the web and tried some plugins – to no avail Finally I decided to go the brute force way by editing wp-includes/kses.php and removing the whole code. Therefor I changed the wp_kses [...]
CDATA Section within a CDATA (or “How to escape ]]> in CDATA?”)
Using CDATA to embed raw data within XML is a quite convinient feature. But the XML spec lacks the possibility to have a CDATA containing another CDATA or even the string ]]>. So what happens if you put content like this within a CDATA section? Just a ]]> test ]]> Your XML writer or at [...]
DOH! IE displays white page after switching to JSPX
I guess almost everybody has been hit by the “IE shows only a blank page” issue while experimenting with XHTML back then. It is because IE requires a closing tag. The following fragment will not work in IE: But this works: Ok, we learned that. Today I had a hard time with IE showing a [...]