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Tag Archives: web applications
Open Redirects
In this post I’ll discuss an issue I tackled a short while ago – open redirects. But first, the story of how I got to it. Feel free to skip ahead to the technical discussion. Background Our analytics for plnnr.com … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Security, web-design
Tagged cross site scripting, csrf, open redirect, Programming, robots.txt, Security, web applications, xss
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A Simple Race-Condition
Lately, I’ve mostly been working on my startup. It’s a web-application, and one of the first things I’ve written was a cache mechanism for some lengthy operations. Yesterday, I found a classic race-condition in that module. I won’t present the … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Design, Programming
Tagged Bug, Caching, Databases, Multi-Threading, Race-Condition, web applications
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LStrings and ASCII-Plotter at UtilityMill.com
It seems Gregory is fond of ascii-art, as he took my scripts, and put them online at utilitymill.com. UtilityMill.com is a cool new website, which allows you to run scripts as small web applications. What Gregory actually did, with just … Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Python, web-design
Tagged ascii-art, ascii-plotter, blogging, lstrings, Programming, Python, utilitymill.com, web applications
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