Rene Schmidt Freelancer

06-221

Measures against Slowloris attacks

Categories: Web Development, Work

In a Slowloris attack a client (or a botnet) opens a large amount of connections to a web server and holds them open. It does not send complete requests so you might find no request of the attacker in an Apache log… Read on ››

05-15!

Web fonts slowly picking up pace

Categories: Web Development, Work

Web fonts have been adopted by all major web browsers. What Firefox 3.1+ w/ Noscript users might not know is that Noscript blocks “font face” by default so they do not get to see nice fonts. There are two… Read on ››

02-26!

Browser detection on the verge of IE6′s death

Categories: Misc, Web Development

Internet Explorer 6 is on the verge of death. Google will phase out support of this old fellow very soon. FINALLY I might add. While they will invite IE6 users to install Chrome, Firefox or some other modern browser,… Read on ››

02-10!

Can I block someone from viewing my publicly available content?

Categories: Misc, Web Development

Someone recently asked me if he could block someone from viewing his publicly available web content. The inconvenient truth: No you can not. Unless you restrict your web content to a certain user group via authentication… Read on ››

02-041

Deutschland und Amazon AWS (aktualisiert)

Categories: Misc, Work

Wer sich dafür interessiert, Amazon Web Services (AWS) zu nutzen, beispielsweise Elastic Computing (EC2), Cloudfront oder S3, sollte eines wissen: Es gibt keine vorsteuerabzugsfähigen Rechnungen von “Amazon… Read on ››

01-21!