Archive for May, 2005

Standards Compliant Solution for 302 Web Page Hijacking

Monday, May 30th, 2005

The HTTP Content-Location header is a standards compliant solution for the 302 web page hijacking problem. Depending on how it’s evaluated, it can be effective as either an HTTP header, or as an HTML meta tag. If two different locations provide conflicting Content-Location data, then priority should be given to the information that […]

Update to Link Vault Setup Software

Monday, May 30th, 2005

Updated 9/13/05:
Link Vault Client Software Beta Test
Download lvSecurityCode.zip version 1.4.01-5122117.
Make backup copies of your XXXXXXXXX.txt data file and lvXXXXXXXXX.php files before installing this version. It changes the data file format so the backups will make switching back (if needed) to the old version much easier.
Follow these instructions at the top of the file:
// Change […]

Link Vault Setup Code Update 1.3.06-5052709

Friday, May 27th, 2005

This is a beta release 1.3.06-5052709 of the php Link Vault setup code that uses the fsockopen() function instead of the fopen() function to access the Link Vault server.
To try it out, you’ll have to edit the following two lines of code at the top of the file to include your Link Vault settings, and […]

Deleting Expired Announcements in phpWebsite

Sunday, May 8th, 2005

phpWebsite announcements have an expiration date used to determine when to stop displaying them. After they stop displaying, the announcements simply remain in the database until they are deleted manually. This is my solution to delete expired announcements automatically.
Rather than include something in the phpWebsite code that checks for expired records every time […]