Thursday, May 31, 2012

Performing secure FTP-connection over SSH

Webmasters are often loaded scripts to the server via FTP. However, the default FTP connection does not secure and is not encrypted, so the password and the data is transmitted over the network in clear text. An attacker can simply intercept your data by the sniffer. If you have a server that supports the connection by SSH, then you can use it to encrypt your FTP-traffic, what is much safer. Many hosting companies offer this service. To encrypt traffic, you can use the PuTTY.

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Saturday, March 31, 2012

How to install counter on any web-application

Some web applications do not have a common template output, to which you could simply insert the tracking code (Google Analytics or Yandex Metrika). In such applications, HTML-pages are generated in different ways and patterns. To insert the tracking code into such a system, you can use the Apache HTTPD.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Recommendations for Google images indexing

Images on your site are very important, it have said a lot about already. Internet users often pay attention to the illustrated sites and ignore the ones where there is only the text. This article focuses on how to correctly place the images on your site that they are guaranteed to be indexed by Google or Yandex.

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

HFS, a free HTTP file service

HFS is a Windows program, which allows you to access files via HTTP. User-friendly interface, no need to configure additional clients (FAR, Total Commander etc.), ease of use — these are the main advantages, which will evaluate the user of the system. Moreover, the program is free.

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Forbid site to load in frames (or iframes)

Imagine that you have developed a site that has a good attendance. Then the attacker will want to embed your web site or any of its page into his frame, to manipulate a data, that users enter thinking if they are on your site. This type of attack is known as Clickjacking.

There is a simplified example of malicious code that uses your site:

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Floating block using JQuery

You can create a fixed div, floating while scrolling page, using JQuery. The simple code is shown below:

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Friday, January 13, 2012

How to insert image to vcard using PHP

Using PHP you can generate VCF-files, which contain contact data, suitable for Outlook. This article briefly discusses the insertion of image (avatar) to this file.

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