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Measures against Slowloris attacks

Categories: Web Development, Work
Measures against Slowloris attacks

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 ››

Web fonts slowly picking up pace

Categories: Web Development, Work
Web fonts slowly picking up pace

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 ››

Browser detection on the verge of IE6′s death

Categories: Misc, Web Development
Browser detection on the verge of IE6′s death

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 ››

Can I block someone from viewing my publicly available content?

Categories: Misc, Web Development
Can I block someone from viewing my publicly available content?

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 ››

Deutschland und Amazon AWS (aktualisiert)

Categories: Misc, Work
Deutschland und Amazon AWS (aktualisiert)

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 ››

“Why is my browser so slow?”

Categories: Software, Work
“Why is my browser so slow?”

Every now and then people complain about their web browser being slow. The conversation usually goes like this: Me: Ok which browser are you using and which version? Customer: Firefox 3.5 Me: Ok which plugins did you… Read on ››

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