Nowak blog http://nowakblog.com Webdesign - Usability - SEO - Marketing Tue, 20 May 2008 18:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 en A better HTMLencode for protection against cross-site scripting (XSS) http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-htmlencode-for-protection-against-cross-site-scripting-xss/ http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-htmlencode-for-protection-against-cross-site-scripting-xss/#comments Tue, 13 May 2008 03:24:20 +0000 Nowak http://nowakblog.com/articles/a-better-htmlencode-for-protection-againt-cross-site-scripting-xss/ Cross site scripting can get really ugly. When interacting with a website visitors might try to post script (mostly javascript) which could be harmful.

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]]> http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-htmlencode-for-protection-against-cross-site-scripting-xss/feed/ Vista Service Pack 1 Release Candidate (SP1 RC1), installation problem http://nowakblog.com/articles/vista-service-pack-1-release-candidate-sp1-rc1-installation-problem/ http://nowakblog.com/articles/vista-service-pack-1-release-candidate-sp1-rc1-installation-problem/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:08:49 +0000 Nowak http://nowakblog.com/articles/vista-service-pack-1-release-candidate-sp1-rc1-installation-problem/ Everyone that is using Microsoft Vista has undoubtfully noticed several properties which have a negative effect on prouctivity. Since I work with producing websites Vista’s slooow filemanagement has probably been the most irritating of them all. Therefore, SP1 is very welcome update, even if it’s only a Vista SP1 RC1 (i.e. more or less final will some risk of smaller bugs). (more…)

]]> http://nowakblog.com/articles/vista-service-pack-1-release-candidate-sp1-rc1-installation-problem/feed/ Better URL for images with mod_rewrite http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-url-for-images-with-mod_rewrite/ http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-url-for-images-with-mod_rewrite/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:41:40 +0000 Nowak http://nowakblog.com/articles/better-url-for-images-with-mod_rewrite/ Apache is a popular server platform which among other things includes an URL rewriting function called mod_rewrite. This function is usually used to rewrite URL:s for documents in order to make them more SEO-friendly.

mod_rewrite is applicable for images

Actually its pretty obvious that mod_rewrite works for images as well. Among other things, this technique is used for protection against hotlinking (preventing images being shown on external domains). So, why not use mod_rewrite for better looking URL?

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