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Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category

HTML Cleaner – (not only) Word to clean HTML

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/10

A great on-line way to cleanup html (from for instance style information) before publishing it on your blog: HTML Cleaner – Word to clean HTML.

One of the things is does is Remove inline styles.

Ideal for copy-pasting a quote from a web-site to your HTML editor.

–jeroen

via: www.html-cleaner.com

Posted in Development, HTML, HTML5, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Watch changes on html pages that do not have RSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/06/15

A few tools that help you watch changes in html pages, even these pages do not have RSS: they make a feed out of a page.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, HTML, Power User, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Pastebin, but for HTML? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/26

Nice question (thanks aplm!), as for instance Gist does not render html:

Pastebin is a useful online tool to paste snippets of text. Pastie is a similar tool. Also, Ideone is similar except that it also runs the source code, as well as being a general pastebin.

Is there a similar tool, for HTML?

And ditto links in the answer (thanks meder!):

Unbelievable that such questions get closed as “not constructive”.

Note I could not get http://www.pastekit.com to work.

–jeroen

via: javascript – Pastebin, but for HTML? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Development, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSFiddle, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

The Clickjacking attack, X-Frame-Options

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/29

Front-end web development isn’t my core area of expertise, but every now and then I am slightly more than the usual spectator and do get involved.

This case it was about helping to prevent The Clickjacking attack by using the The X-Frame-Options response header from RFC 7034.

Lots of people seem to have questions about it: Highest Voted ‘x-frame-options’ Questions – Stack Overflow.

So, from The X-Frame-Options response header:

There are three possible values for X-Frame-Options:

DENY
The page cannot be displayed in a frame, regardless of the site attempting to do so.
SAMEORIGIN
The page can only be displayed in a frame on the same origin as the page itself.
ALLOW-FROM uri
The page can only be displayed in a frame on the specified origin.

–jeroen

via:

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Batch file that finds and starts Cntlm.exe in verbose mode.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/13

As a follow up on the Cntlm configuration post last week, here is a small batch file that will find Cntlm.exe (on x86 and x64 systems) then start it in verbose mode.


call :start %ProgramFiles%
call :start %ProgramFiles(x86)%
goto :end
:start
startlocal
set cntlm="%*\Cntlm\Cntlm.exe"
echo %cntlm%
if exist %cntlm% start "Cntlm verbose" %cntlm% -v
endlocal
goto :end
:end

–jeroen

Posted in Cntlm, Development, Fiddler, NTLM, Power User, Web Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

How to fill proxy information in cntlm config file (via: Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/10

This is an elaboration of How to fill proxy information in cntlm config file – Stack Overflow.

When digging around how to get authentication stuff going, I want as much information, so this was the command-line I used:

cntlm.exe -v -c cntlm.ini -I -M http://www.bbc.co.uk

The -v is important: it shows you why things fail, and where: It also shows you the NTLM headers sent back/forth over the wire.

These are the switches used:

  • -v verbose
  • -c configuration file
  • -I interactive (prompt for password)
  • -M magically detect the NTLM level used by the proxy

Since it is unsafe to store plain text passwords in configuration files, cntlm allows you to store the hashes.

Storing hashes not passwords locally is safer, but not much safer. See for instance Still Passing the Hash 15 Years Later: Guest Post: Let’s talk about Pass-the-Hash by Scriptjunkie the video How to own a Windows Domain or search for Mark Russinovich video windows hash ntlm hack.

Anyway: you can generate the password hashes using either     Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Fiddler, git, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Mercurial/Hg, NTLM, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, TCP, Web Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | 1 Comment »

One line browser notepad (via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/19

Smart, it works in any modern html5 capable browser:


data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

Be sure to look at the blog post and comments at Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad as they explain why this works, and how to extend it in a couple of really smart way.

–jeroen

via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad.

Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, Opera, Power User, Safari, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | 1 Comment »

RosettaCode: cool way to improve your coding skills

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/22

Wow: I feel like having lived under a stone for 8 years, as RosettaCode has been alive since it was founded in 2007 by Mike Mol.

The idea is that you solve a task and learn from that, or learn by seeing how others have solved tasks or draft tasks.

So in a sense it is similar to the Rosetta stone: it has different languages phrasing the same tasks.

There are already a whole bunch of languages on RosettaCode (of which a few are in the categories below), and you can even suggest or add your own languages.

When you want to solve tasks, be sure to look at the list unimplemented tasks by language that leads to automatic reports by language (for instance two of the languages I use most often: C# and Delphi).

I’m sure there are lots of programming chrestomathy sites, even beyond the ones, and it feels very similar to programming kata sites.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, APL, Awk, bash, Batch-Files, C, C#, C++, COBOL, CommandLine, Delphi, Development, Fortran, FreePascal, Java, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Lazarus, Object Pascal, Office VBA, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PowerShell, PowerShell, Prism, Scripting, sed script, Sh Shell, Software Development, Turbo Prolog, VB.NET, VBS, VBScript, Visual Studio and tools, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Cross-site Scripting (XSS) – OWASP

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12

When I look what is possible with Cross-site Scripting (XSS), then I wonder how you can defend your site to any and all of these and future attacks.

Coming from a desktop application and back-end background, the jungle of the web keeps being overwhelming.

–jeroen

via: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) – OWASP

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Direct link to the “old” WordPress stats page giving more information: My Stats — WordPress.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/22

For my link archive: the “old” stats page, as it shows more information in a better formatted way (especially on larger monitors) My Stats — WordPress.com.

The “new” stats page used only half the screen width (long live responsive layout): Stats ‹ 7443331 — WordPress.com.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development, WordPress, WordPress | 2 Comments »