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lighttpd’s mod_cml will change
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in PHPYou may have read Jo’s blog entry Methods to reduce the load of your webserver by caching content: using lighttpd, MySQL UDF, LUA and speed everything up. He explained there how to use lighttpd and its mod_cml together with MySQL to provide a caching system directly at the webserver, and not at the PHP level.…
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Handling large files with(out) PHP
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in PHPAs one man was quoted "640K of memory should be enough for anybody" no one will need to access more than 2 GB data. What happens if you – just for scientific reasons of course – try to access larger files using your 32bit hardware and your favorite programming language PHP? For a first test…
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Stacking up the free accounts: recursive scans
Chorizo’s standard account already contains recursive scans from the current URL. This means that Chorizo! is able to follow URLs from forms etc. automatically until a recursive level that you are able to set. From now on, the free accounts also benefit from this feature which makes it very handy to scan sites more deeply.…
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Improving Usability on „My Chorizo“ page: the host signature file
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in ChorizoIn the spirit of Web2.0 applications, we constantly improve Chorizo! and silently update the application with the newest features. In order to scan a host, you have to prove that you are the owner of the host by uploading a unique signature file to your host’s document root. Some of our users had trouble uploading…
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3,500 users in 2 days. Awaiting the birth of the bloody alien sausage.
Geez! What a week. Right after the announces at several newstickers and websites (on heise security German and heise Security English, an extensive German review at dynamic-webpages.de and one in French at nexen.net) on Monday, more than 3,500 users (and counting) registered at our small security sausage tool and created hundreds of thousands security scans…
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Handling different Configurations in an ITIL Staging Process
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in PHPWhat’s ITIL at all ? ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) is a description of different processes to manage the whole ITInfrastruture from the first use of a software to user helpdesks. The aim of the defined processes
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Commoditizing PHP security
We think it’s time to commoditize PHP web application security. You may have heard of Chorizo!. We’re proud to announce that from now on it’s possible to register for a free account on chorizo-scanner.com. With this free account, it’s possible to use the Chorizo! application service as a proxy and scan 1 host. All scan…
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Accessing NTLM secured resources with PHP
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in PHPSometimes you need to do strange things – and then PHP is the language of choice if you need a solution for web applications in really special environments like using a Windows based authentication method on a Linux server. Here at Mayflower GmbH / ThinkPHP we wrote a proxy server for the authentication with NTLM…
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An alternative Approach to Tagging
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in PHPThe Term Tagging The popular feature of ‚tagging‘ content is nothing new. The average netizen should have encountered it by now. Tagging was made popular by sites like del.icio.us and flickr, where users can attach free-form strings, so-called ‚tags‘ to their bookmarks and images. The viewer can then use these tags to navigate through one…