Projects

[mod_deflate] p0wn3d

I recently discovered [mod_deflate], which compresses webserver content before sending it out – if you’re not using it you should really check it out. I turned it on and it worked flawlessly for me, with two exceptions.

Server-side includes
These just did not play well together out of the box…
PHP and Perl “streaming” output
I have some scripts, most notably imagescraper, that need to stream the html in the results page as it is computed, not all at once AFTER it is built, as mod_deflate requires.

Turning off [mod_deflate] is trivial. I used the no-gzip environment variable as follows:

# MDM This is to disable [mod_deflate] for imagescraper, so we don't try to compress the streaming results...

    SetEnv no-gzip 1


# MDM Drop this into a virtual host block to TURN OFF [mod_deflate], so it doesn't break SSI.
SetEnv no-gzip 1

Comments | Saturday, November 1, 2008 [ mod_deflate ]

Multiple-repo subversion-sourced git HOWTO updated

My git wiki article has been updated. Humming along. If this looks like something you want to do, check it out…

                      repo1
               mybranch<->master
              /                 \
my shared repo                   external svn repo
              \                 /
               mybranch<->master
                      repo2

Comments | Monday, October 20, 2008 [ git ]

Google Results Walker goes public!

Official download page

Homepage

0.5.11 was reviewed and approved, which makes it public. This is great for two reasons:

Users can install the addon without logging in to mozilla.org
Users will get live updates to the latest approved version

This is VERY good stuff. To put it in perspective, I had a couple hundred downloads this morning, and I’ve been watching that number jump by 100 every hour or two – it’s currently over 600. Exciting times for my little addon!

I released 0.5.12 by request to address more international google URLS (eg, google.fr). The nice guy that requested it even donated $10 afterwards. A good day all around. :>

Comments | Monday, September 29, 2008

Cyrus IMAP + Squirrelmail + Avelsieve working again!

Avelsieve is a really nicely done web interface for email rules. It is a plugin for Squirrelmail, a tried-and-true webmail client, that works with a cyrus IMAP server, another old dog that is a nightmare to install but gets the job done no matter what it is.

The system has been handling my email for years, but for the past few months, I haven’t been able to get Avelsieve to edit my email rules. It’s very picky about compatibility. Today I finally dug in and fixed that. Apparently cyrus updates broke avelsieve, but there’s a workaround. Turned out to be one line in the avelsieve config file, updated as follows:

# MDM Will this fix the problem of not decoding scripts?
# MDM YES!  IT DOES!  Thank goodness.
# see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins/14106
#$avelsieve_disabletls = false;
$avelsieve_disabletls = true;

Yay! My pretty and powerful email rules are back!

Comments (1) | Thursday, September 25, 2008 [ avelsieve * cyrus imap * squirrelmail * whitelist ]

Google Results Walker 0.5.11

Official download page

Homepage

Google updated their results page today, Google Results Walker has been updated to match.

It was a simple change of the footer, from using an ID of ‘footer’ to using a className of ‘clr’ (?), but it was enough to break walker. I updated the code do more checking of assumptions, so next time the placement may get thrown off but it won’t break.

Have fun with it!