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Live HTTP Header tracking for Firefox

Live HTTP headers is a FireFox extension that lets you look at all HTTP headers for all requests issued by the browser. Now updated for Firefox 1.5....

January 20, 2012 · 2 min · François Planque

How to log request processing times in Apache

If you have an apache (2) web server, you probably have an access.log file showing you all kinds of data using the "combined" log format. Let's see how to include processing time into that log file. By default a line in the combined log looks like this…...

December 3, 2009 · 2 min · François Planque

The importance of URIs

"People don’t recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they’re all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that’s a new thing and a go…

May 5, 2007 · 1 min · François Planque

How to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com (or reverse)

Most sites can be reached by two different URLs. For example http://b2evolution.net/about/features.html and http://www.b2evolution.net/about/features.html . This is good for the users who can choose wether or not to type in the "www." part. However, i…...

March 21, 2007 · 4 min · François Planque

PHP Output buffering and ob_handlers

PHP has some nice features to do output buffering. You just call . This is supposed to let you do "kewl" post-processing operations like: gzip compression, adding an ETag, adding content-length of your whole output. Crap! There are only two situations…...

April 20, 2004 · 1 min · François Planque

IE 6 not refreshing

Just stumbled upon yet another funky IE6 "bug" (if I may say so... When you want to automatically refresh to another page, you send a header that looks something like: Refresh:0;url=http://blah.blah.blah The funky thing is that if that header…...

August 31, 2003 · 2 min · François Planque