Date: 04/21/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Bush administration says that sexually explicit Web sites must be labeled as such, or their operators could go to prison.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6063554.html

Date: 04/22/06 (Web Hosts)    Keywords: web

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I'm not sure why, but every year, nearing summertime, I start getting automated messages from my ISP's server, that I am running out of space. In the past when I've asked him about this, he's always just given me more space +ultimately this hasn't been a problem.

This year he told me that I need to allow him to 'defrag' my space, then I can reload my entire website. It would be a LOT of work to put my (huge) website back up there. I have some nagging worry that I'll actually wind up with LESS space than I currently have.

AAARRRGGG!!

He explained that I've had my site up for 5+years now, the server area that holds my information needs to be defragged like a hard-drive (HUH!?!) +he explained that he cannot do maintenance for only my account because that would cause the accounts belonging to others to have down time.

Is this true? Would someone please kindly explain this to me?
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Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webhosts/35298.html

Date: 04/24/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, sql, web

I asked about this issue a while back here, but I have found out some more information that may better help people diagnose or point me on the right path of this issue.

We have a document management system that uses Windows 2000 (server?) and IIS 5. The same machine also has SQL Server 2000 installed on it which it uses. Basically this program has had issues for a while, primarily that after a while various functions of the web app will just stop working. No one knows what is causing these errors, but all we DO know is that this is "fixed" by restarting IIS. Typically this would happen like once in a while, but we had to restart this like 3 times in the past month. I don't have tons of access to this server, but I'm wondering if there's anything I can tell the tech guys to look at or perhaps monitor to help us better diagnose this issue. I have access to the source code, but obviously I can't "run" it on the live server. This server hosts this one web app, and this one database, so its not like there's multiple programs running that could be bogging it down.

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/63389.html

Date: 04/24/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, web

http://webxact.watchfire.com/

i've seen people link validataor.w3.org a few times, but i've never seen this. just wanted to drop a note!

edit: let's add one for color blindness, too: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1100264.html

Date: 04/25/06 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: virus, web, spyware

So awhile back my computer was running super slowly, so I got a virus/antispyware program, ran it, and wiped out all the spyware and crap. Then, after that, my internet stopped working, so I tried several things which didn't work. I assumed that when the spyware was deleted, it also deleted an important file that the spyware was attached to, so I reinstalled windows. However, it's still not working, but it's acting differently than before I reinstalled windows. Before that, it was acting as if there was no connection at all. Now, it's saying that there's a connection detected, and it starts counting the time it's "connected." However, when I try going to a website, it doesn't work.

One more thing. When I plug in the wire to connect to the internet, the green and yellow light are on. And I have DSL.

Does anyone have suggestions?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/915782.html

Date: 04/24/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, security, web, spam

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for some advice on some simple security measures. I deal with a political web site that wouldn't necessarily be sticking its neck out for malicious attacks but has received some spam attention on its forms already, and I worry as we store more data in a MySQL db (is it wrong to store a mailing list there?) that an injection could get in and send out sensitive information or potentially attack our larger parent organization that provides us with server space.

Basically I have the same kind of simple form doing the same thing in a few instances of the web site. The form has about 20 fields, most type text some textarea, and a few of type file (for resumes, applications, etc). I don't currently copy any of the files to the server because I don't have access to, so I email them (via PHP) to myself or whoever the coordinator is. I don't currently have anything in place except for strip slashes and/or remove html in some cases, but I know that these measly little concoctions don't do anything to protect me from a sophisticated (or hell, even newbie) attack.

What kinds of things should I be doing? I should probably be processing strings to make sure that they don't have any sql in them or make it so that the user is blocked from having access to damaging things, but I don't know what signifiers to look for or even what functions to use. Anyone have any basic suggestions or advice, or a link to a source that might help me beef up my data police? Thanks in advance!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/443711.html

Date: 04/25/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: database, asp, security, web

I have a question for you all. I have an ASP.NET (VB.NET) application that access access 97 databases on a file server (don't laugh). In IIS, I have it set to use Windows Authentication, and anonymous access turned off. In my web config, I have impersonation turned on. My question is why do I have to specify a user that has specific rights to the file server? The clients using the application already have rights to this server. I don't want to have to specify a domain, user name, and password in my web config for various reasons (Specifically Security). Am I going about this the wrong way? Any help would be much appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/63948.html

Date: 04/25/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, yahoo, google

Fourteen portals, including Yahoo but not Google and MSN, join campaign to rid Web sites of "unhealthy" content.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6064628.html

Date: 04/26/06 (Security)    Keywords: web

Unpatched flaws are discovered in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari that could cause problems for Web surfers.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6065048.html

Date: 04/27/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Just to let everyone know who might be interested, I've just set up:

uk_designers

Basically it's a community for...uh...designers based in the UK (or wanting to be based in the UK!), who want to discuss all kinds of work related bollocks: pay, degree and postgraduate courses, job prospects, college courses, training, asking and giving hints and tips, asking design-related questions etc. I've noticed that both graphicdesign and webdesign, although fab, are very US-designer-heavy and, as a lot of the things that trouble designers in this country seem to need knowledge of how the system works here in terms of employment, training, work experience and what the various courses entail etc...well let's just say there seemed to be niche, so I have attempted to fill it!

Anyway, a community is only a community if people join and post, so this is just a quick pimp to say, if you'd like to join up and x-post, please feel free!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1100852.html

Date: 04/27/06 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

Latest updates don't sew up a hole exploited by attack code out on the Web, a security researcher has warned.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6065505.html

Date: 04/27/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Just to let everyone know who might be interested, I've just set up:

uk_designers

Basically it's a community for...uh...designers based in the UK (or wanting to be based in the UK!), who want to discuss all kinds of work related bollocks: pay, degree and postgraduate courses, job prospects, college courses, training, asking and giving hints and tips, asking design-related questions etc. I've noticed that both graphicdesign and webdev, although fab, are very US-designer-heavy and, as a lot of the things that trouble designers in this country seem to need knowledge of how the system works here in terms of employment, training, work experience and what the various courses entail etc...well let's just say there seemed to be niche, so I have attempted to fill it!

Anyway, a community is only a community if people join and post, so this is just a quick pimp to say, if you'd like to join up and x-post, please feel free!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/316267.html

Date: 04/26/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, microsoft

An overhaul of the long-neglected Web e-mail is the cornerstone of Microsoft's plan to win fans to its Windows Live services.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6065439.html

Date: 04/28/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, browser, html, web, apache

I currently have a paid webhost, which runs *nix, I have a web proxy script running on there and rather than calling the script directly, I use the
include('cgi-bin/proxy.pl');
?>
function to load it in an index.php file on my webserver.

Now I also have a local webserver, running Win2k3, Apache 2.0.55, the latest PHP, and Perl. (I'm not sure if its a misconfiguration on my part, or if theres something I'm doing wrong...) I setup everything, Installed the same proxy script (and when accessed directly, it runs exactly as it should,) But when I use the include('cgi-bin/proxy.pl'); function, It just returns the entire cgi script in plaintext exactly like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl --## CGIProxy 2.0.1## nph-proxy.cgi-- CGIProxy 2.0.1: a proxy in the form of a CGI script.# Retrieves the resource at any HTTP or FTP URL, updating embedded URLs# in HTML resources to point back through this script. By default, no# user info is sent to the server. Options include text-only proxying# to save bandwidth, cookie filtering, ad filtering, script removal,# user-defined encoding of the target URL, and more. Requires Perl 5.## Copyright (C) 1996, 1998-2002 by James Marshall, james@jmarshall.com# All rights reserved.## For the latest, see http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/### IMPORTANT NO

I've also tried using the full URL in the include path include('http://mysiteurl/cgi-bin/proxy.pl'); But that causes it to timeout, and gives the following errors:

Warning: include(http://mysiteurl/cgi-bin/proxy.pl) [function.include]:failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in D:\WebServer\htdocs2\public\index.php on line 5

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://mysiteurl/cgi-bin/proxy.pl' for inclusion (include_path='.') in D:\WebServer\htdocs2\public\index.php on line 5

This also happens when I try to "include" any other file by the complete url... I'd like to figure out what's causing this, and why it can't read it from the complete url (all files I've tested, can be accessed fine via a web browser by the full URL, so I don't know why Apache / PHP is having a hard time with it.)

I'm not quite sure where the problem is, But the first way of calling it include('cgi-bin/proxy.pl'); Obviously works, it just doesn't execute the cgi script before displaying it (which my paid webhost apparently does) How does one accomplish this?

I'm by far no expert with PHP, I can piece together scripts and things, and do basic setting up, but this has really baffled me. :(


---Edit---
Here are some actual domains so you can see what I really mean:

My Webserver (Win2k3, Apache, PHP, Perl):
The actual CGI Script (This runs fine):
http://proxytest.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.pl
The PHP file using the include function to load the cgi script (Displays the actual CGI file in plaintext):
http://proxytest.dyndns.org/proxy.php

My Paid Host (Pre-configured, running on *nix):
The actual CGI Script (This runs fine):
http://www.wolfstudios3d.ca/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.pl
The PHP file using the include function to load the cgi script (Displays the processed CGI File, exactly as if accessed directly):
http://www.wolfstudios3d.ca/proxy.php

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/445071.html

Date: 04/28/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: software, java, web

I'm currently a Firefox user, but have some people I know attempting to get me to switch back to using IE. (This is getting as ludicrous as the PC/Mac debate.) So I'm currently running an IE7 beta.

Question. I have a toolbar button for Firefox that runs a small Javascript script that will take info from an Amazon.com webpage and feed it into my local library's search engine. (For those of you who wish to see the script, it's javascript:var%20re=/([//-]|is[bs]n=)(/d{7,9}[/dX])/i;if(re.test(location.href)==true){var%20isbn=RegExp.$2;void(win=window.open('http://catalog.clevnet.org'+'/web2/tramp2.exe/do_authority_search/guest?SETTING_KEY=CLEVNET&English&location_group_filter=all&servers=1home&index=&query='+isbn,'LibraryLookup','scrollbars=1,resizable=1,location=1,width=575,height=500'))} ; as long as your library uses the same software program-- which I used to know the name of, but mine have taken it off the software altogether-- it shouldn't require a huge amount of customization.) When I try to create an IE toolbar button (in the links toolbar) with the same script, it first tries to assign it to a search.msn.com page, then to http://javascript.internet.com, then tells me "javascript is not a valid URL protocol."

Is there any way to get a toolbar button to run a script under IE? (This would be a showstopper for my going back to IE; I use that button in Firefox at least twenty times a day.)

Thanks.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/622517.html

Date: 04/28/06 (Application Development)    Keywords: software, technology, web

Eager for fresh ideas, the stodgy world of enterprise software is adopting technology and marketing from the consumer Web.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9593_22-6066138.html

Date: 04/28/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, mysql, database, sql, web

Hello all. I am in the process of starting a member's section for the website at my job. My boss wants members to be able to login and view information that is specific to them.. such as pricing, sales history, etc. What I'm wanting to know is what is the best way to go about doing this? A PHP/MySQL database? Something different? This will be my first time doing anything like this. I'm really looking forward to it as I'll be able to learn some new and interesting things, but where's a good place to start? I appreciate any suggestions you guys can offer. You're all always such a huge help!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101500.html

Date: 04/30/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: html, web

Hi all,

I'm an HTML beginner and now a friend of mine asked me to help him debugging his webpages (for a client).

The website appears in Firefox, but not in Explorer.

Can you spot the trouble line or tell me what code I need to add in order to make it work?

Thanks a lot for your help,

Julie :-)

http://www.saunainfrarouge.com

Please let me know if I should copy other parts of the code. Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/317163.html

Date: 05/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, html, java, security, web, hosting, shopping

Hello all-- hoping to get some advice about security, and/or online stores. I am designing a website for a friend of the family and she wants it not only to be informational but also for customers to be able to order products online. She really has no idea what she is asking for because she doesn't really know how any of this works. I am a graphic design student who is familiar with html, css and some java script but I don't know ANYthing about ssl or encryption or anything.

So, I have looked at websites like Verisign, who offer certificates and I have this question: what does that actually do for a business?

And I have viseted sites such as Networksolutions.com who offer secure hosting with a shopping cart pachage and what not for $99/month... and I am wondering is this pretty much standard for hosting? Can I do better?

I am sorry if these are all really obvious questions. I have read books and searched online but nothing is better than personal experience and advice.

If you don't know the answer, perhaps you know who I might ask who might... I was thinking perhaps the business owner could contact her credit card company (the service through which she accepts credit cards), and they could probably give her some idea as to what to do to accept credit cards online...

Anyhow. I have known this woman my whole life and I am doing this for free (because she is desperate and isn't making a lot of money yet and because I am so underqualified... obviously).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1101886.html

Date: 05/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

SURVEY:

How much do you guys get paid per hr for flash animation / flash website design / flash development (actionscripting)?

If you don't mind sharing, I would also like to know what your experiences are with Flash:
beginner?
Freelancer with a few years of experience?
Working at a design firm?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1102675.html