I’ve been wanting a magazine style template for my main website splash page for about six months. And I’d been wondering how those scrapers, scraped you rss feed into their blog. Sometimes procrastination is a good thing when I finally got around to looking into it all I found most of the pieces [...]
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Trackback spam and xmlrpc
December 30th, 2008 by ljmacphee
One of the more fun things to do with your blog is to post to it remotely from Flickr, your cell phone, email etc. I remote post to my personal blog, the rest I sit at a computer and log in to to write posts.
If you only write posts while logged onto WordPress you [...]
How to force an HTTP error code from PHP
August 29th, 2008 by ljmacphee
If something happens in your php script you may want to force an HTTP error, rather than continue or redirect the user to another page. This is very simple to do. Just be sure the first line of output from your script to the browser is
header(’HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden’);
or
header(’HTTP/1.0 404 Not found’);
Or which [...]
Yet another Coppermine MySQL injection flaw has been discovered
August 6th, 2008 by ljmacphee
Coppermine 1.4.19 has been released to fix a MySQL injection flaw, again. This is how TimesToCome was hacked last April and why you now have all these shiny new security tools and information on this website.
I went to the Coppermine site only because there was a huge increase in cross site scripting attempts last [...]