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Spitting server side request into HTML to be used in JavaScript bad practice?
I am working with an API which essentially provides me with image urls that are hosted on a CDN somewhere. I can simply pass it a number and it will give me the right image and it also provides me ...
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Different HTTP_HOST received at the server side
In my browser(Maxthon) When I give refresh to an URL name:
http://m.example.com/page..
I find that on the server side the HTTP_HOST instead gets:
http://www.example.com/page..
This is very ...
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“PHP” is showing up in Browser + OS list in Google Analytics report
PHP is listed as a browser in Google Analytics. 50 sessions have been created.
Obviously Analytics data is collected via Javascript executed in the visitor's browser so what is PHP (a server-side ...
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How to package web site configuration for distribution
Is there a way, preferably PowerShell based, to extract all the configuration data for a particular web site, for installing that web site on site at clients?
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Run server side script on schedule for hosted asp.net application
I'm in the process of deploying my first website which is written is ASP.NET. I need to run a server side script at set intervals during the day which updates a database even if there is nobody using ...
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Do web hosting companies allow server-side scripts to make external data requests?
I'm currently ready to deploy an asp.net website and looking at web hosting companies.
The C# code behind periodically uses HttpWebRequest to pull data from an external website to insert into a SQL ...
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An apache injection attack?
I encountered a novel (to me anyway) form of injection attack in one of my
logs
login as <!--#exec cmd="ls .."-->
Which looks like someone it trying to trigger sever side includes on
an ...
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Hosting Dynamic Content on GitHub?
Is it possible to host dynamic content through GitHub:Pages? More specifically, we are using GitHub Enterprise, so we have a little more control, but I'm not aware of what dynamic content languages ...
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IIS executes “malicious.asp;.txt” as ASP file. What the?
I investigated a situation where 300+ websites hosted on an IIS server were pwned by a hacker. Investigation led me to a text file that contained malicious ASP-classic code. The file was named ...
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Rendering citations and references in HTML using PHP/Perl/Python/
Is there a PHP/Perl/Python/... library for picking citations out of an HTML file and rendering a nice list of references at the bottom, like in Wikipedia?
I'm developing a website with ...
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IE disables back-button [closed]
We have an ASP.Net (Web Forms) site hosted on IIS7.
The site contains a table with information retrieved from a database. Paging is enabled for this table, meaning that only 10 rows are displayed at ...
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Where can I find resources for best coding practices in web development?
You'd figure that this would be an easy topic to google, but unfortunately I've been looking for a couple weeks and have yet to find really anything that I'm looking for.
The problems I'm running ...
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Book / resource suggestions for learning web development? Where to start? [closed]
OK, so there's so much to know that I don't even know where to start. I'm hoping you can help me come up with a list of books to get started with.
I'm interested in web applications (for example, ...
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Is there an open source solution that I can host on a web server that will allow users to anonymously upload a file to me?
I'm looking for some kind of web application I can host on my Linux web server that will allow users to upload files of arbitrary size to me from their browser without requiring them to log in.
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Source highlight as CGI script
I would like to put syntax-highlighted source code (C) on a website using CGI. I have the GNU source-highlight package on the web-server. Can anyone tell me how to link the source-highlight-cgi script ...
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What is the best currency API out there? [closed]
I may be asking an odd question, but webmasters seem like a decent place to post this.
I'm in the search for an accurate, easy API (such as using JSON or XML) so I can use my web application.
I've ...
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How to inform website owner if someone downloads something from the website?
Right, beginner here so bare with me..
What i've got: A simple html/css website with a page where clients can find informative documents in the form of PDF's and rich text documents, they can just ...
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Apache log analytic's
Been trying for a while to get this script fully working I think I'm nearly there.
Ok so I basically need the script to show 3 things, email address - Browser type - Time logged in.
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Can I get IIS to treat some .shtml files as .php files?
I want to be able to get IIS to interpret SHTML files (only in a specific directory) as PHP, and interpret the rest as SHTML.
If so, then how?
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Will changing SHTML files to PHP change effect how search engines index my site?
I have a lot of SHTML pages.
If I change these to PHP to add some more functionality (obviously changing stuff like includes to PHP where necessary) will this effect how search engines index my site? ...
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Will Checking Existence Of Email Be Throttled By Email Servers?
As part of a web application I am building, I must check if a particular email address exists. This check may be performed at around 1000 times an hour at a given server. Is there any mail server ...
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Metrics on “market share” for server-side scripting languages
Does anyone know of any market share information for server-side scripting languages (# of web servers, % of web servers, etc.)?
I'm learning how to do server-side scripting with Python (via the ...
